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To: cloudmountain; Extremely Extreme Extremist

Reverse Oedipus Complex?


72 posted on 04/17/2014 11:56:18 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
Reverse Oedipus Complex?

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From the Internet: In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex (or, less commonly, Oedipal complex) denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrates upon a child's desire to sexually possess the parent of the opposite sex (e.g. males attracted to their mothers, whereas females are attracted to their fathers).

Sigmund Freud, who coined the term "Oedipus complex" believed that the Oedipus complex is a desire for the parent in both males and females; Freud deprecated the term "Electra complex", which was introduced by Carl Gustav Jung in regard to the Oedipus complex manifested in young girls. The Oedipus complex occurs in the third — phallic stage (ages 3–6) — of the five psychosexual development stages: (i) the oral, (ii) the anal, (iii) the phallic, (iv) the latent, and (v) the genital — in which the source of libidinal pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant's body.

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In answer to your question: NO, I don't THINK so.

74 posted on 04/17/2014 9:26:59 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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