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Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.
In the phallic stage of psychosexual development, a boy's decisive experience is the Oedipus complex describing his son–father competition for sexual possession of his mother. This psychological complex indirectly derives its name from the Greek mythologic character Oedipus , who unwittingly killed his father and sexually possessed his mother.
Initially, Freud applied the theory of the Oedipus complex to the psychosexual development of boys, but later developed the female aspects of the theory as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex. [9] The feminine Oedipus complex has its roots in the little girl's discovery that she, along with her mother and all other ...
The validity of the Oedipus complex is now widely disputed and rejected. [105] [106] The shorthand term, oedipal—later explicated by Joseph J. Sandler in "On the Concept Superego" (1960) [107] and modified by Charles Brenner in The Mind in Conflict (1982)—refers to the powerful attachments that children make to their parents in the ...
Father complex in psychology is a complex—a group of unconscious associations, or strong unconscious impulses—which specifically pertains to the image or archetype of the father. These impulses may be either positive (admiring and seeking out older father figures) or negative (distrusting or fearful).
The mythical Oedipus gouged his eyes out. Autoenucleation, also known as oedipism, is the self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs. [1]
In this stage, the adult becomes capable of the two signs of maturation: work and love. [7] The stage is initiated at puberty, [8] but may not be completed until well into the adult years. [9] Otto Fenichel considered genital primacy was the precondition for overcoming ambivalence and for whole-object love. [10]
Castration anxiety is an overwhelming fear of damage to, or loss of, the penis—a derivative of Sigmund Freud's theory of the castration complex, one of his earliest psychoanalytic theories. [1] The term refers to the fear of emasculation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. Freud regarded castration anxiety as a universal human experience.