The Oedipus complex is an idea in psychoanalytic theory. The complex is an ostensibly universal phase in the life of a young boy between the age of three to five, in which, to try to immediately satisfy basic desires, he unconsciously wishes to have sex with his mother and disdains his father for having sex and being satisfied before him.
what??
what the fuck???
nyinyi munashtuka aje? hamujawahi skia the term “Oedipus complex”?
Sick n disgusting
Fake Jewish psychology
Mtu anatomba post wall chieth kunguru ghaseer paka muzee suffer s from Oedipus complex mbaya zaidi
Wtf! Mwaka iishe sasa
I’ve always thought Sigmund Freud was nuts. The theory often finds its way into scholarly discourse, but I think it’s absurd.
That’s because symbology is often deliberately played down in our education system, there’s a good reason why talkers who insult mothers had an awful relationship with their own.
Also, planteshen members tend to marry their mothers and fathers.
Dr Sigmund Freud was onto something wildly incredible, and this village plays right into his pages.
Freud was a big time pervert. He saw everything through the lens of libido and sex. Reading Carl Jung and Alfred Adler makes for a balanced view. How Freud dwarfs the rest in psychosocial and psychosexual analysis is paradoxical.
I interpret that tendency as simply a way of gravitating toward what one knows as a safe example right from childhood. To a child, parents are the closest examples of how adults should behave, that’s why they imitate them. A girl will probably be attracted to a guy whose character and values remind her of her dad, the first male hero she knew. Same with men, they admire women who remind them of the peace their mother established at home, if she is a good mother that is. A boy may hate his father if he mistreats his mother, or because he is resisting discipline, not because he’s jealous of a mother’s love for her husband. I see no sexual connotations in that view, because there is a huge difference between parental love and spousal love. Freud’s theory mixes things up with their unhealthy comparison.
It has little to do with external factors and more to do with the shadows and mirrors in your mind, again symbology plays a big part into his work and my statement.
Not a pervert, but a study of paganism, and it’s leanings on the male and female energies!
I don’t understand the argument about the mind’s shadows and mirrors, just that I think Freud read too much into the Greek myth the theory is founded on. I’ll summarise the myth for those who are wondering what madness we’re on about. Madness it is, in a sense, as Sigmund Freud was a psychiatrist, after all.
The story goes that a child was born to the king of Thebes, an ancient Greek city-state. It was told to the king by an oracle that the child was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Perturbed, the king gave the baby away to a man with instructions to take him far out to the wilderness and kill him. But the man sent took pity on the baby and didn’t kill him. He pierced his ankles and left him out there to die, but a shepherd found him and took him to the childless king of a neighbouring state, where he was raised.
Later, as a young man, Oedipus got to know about the prophecy, and fearing its fulfilment, ran away to avoid killing the man he believed was his father, and marrying the woman he thought was his mother. On his way, he met an old man, they argued and he killed him. Upon entering the city he found that the king of that state had recently died. Being a fierce man of valour, he ascended the throne and took the widowed queen for his wife. This was a perfectly normal tradition among the Greek states. Only that this was Thebes, his true home, and unknown to Oedipus, the man he had just killed was his father, and he had now married his mother!
The story was woven into a play by Sophocles, the writer of Greek tragedy, and at the end of it the gods reveal to Oedipus the truth, who puts out his own eyes so they may never again see the evil he had done, and his mother (Jocasta) commits suicide.
This is the backgroud Freud based his pychoanalysis on. I find it hollow because there is no intention at all; the characters in the myth are victims of fate. Oedipus in fact ran right into the destiny he had been running away from, through no fault of his own. But that is Greek tragedy for you; those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first elevate!
(The drama is a great thriller, it’s called Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus The King, by Sophocles.)
Doesn’t that tale possess a taste of a bygone era, where the king of god wasn’t Zeus but his father Chronos, and his mother aided in the disposal of the mightiest of the Titans?
Isn’t that what sons and mother’s are doing to the fathers?
There’s nothing new under the sun, symbols will always attempt to convey what words cannot!
Thanks for linking that.
Knowing the play and recently reading the complex, I didn’t know that Freud connected Jacasta’s and Oedipus fate to create the complex explanation. Actually when I first read the Oedipus complex I thought it was about a hero who falls by the wayside as Oedipus did, as the commentators in the play finally make the observations;
“Here is Oedipus, revered by all men but finally a failure. There is no one who can be called happy until he goes to the grave” (hugely paraphrased)
This is the common feature of tragedy: the hero/heroine suffers through a set of inescapable circumstances, while thinking that they are escaping. The game is rigged by the gods:D
It was a way of telling man, You are nothing without the gods! as Poseidon said to Odysseus after bragging that he didn’t need the gods, because he had just conquered Troy. They caused him to be lost at sea and live a life of wandering for 20 years, mpaka akatii.
By the time they allowed him to go home, he had given up and was begging them to kill him.
Niliskia kitambo sana but I simply dismissed it as some crap white people come up with to justify their evilness.
Ati Odipo complex? @Dunga Unuse hio Odipo yako aisee