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	Oedipus complex - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Oedipus complex is a concept used by Freud to describe the unconscious (sexual) desire of the child -- especially the male child -- for the parent of the opposite sex, in conjunction with a corresponding attitude of rivalry and hostility towards the parent of the same sex.
		In the "positive" form of the Oedipus complex, the desired parent is the parent of the opposite sex to the subject, and the parent of the same sex is the rival.
		In Lacanian terms, the Oedipus complex marks the transiiton from a dual and potentially incestuous relationship with the mother to a triadic relationship in which the role and authority of the father or the Name-of-the-Father are recognized.
	www.nosubject.com /Oedipus_Complex (2692 words)

	Oedipus complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oedipus complex or Oedipus conflict is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain neuroses in childhood.
		The Oedipus conflict, or Oedipus complex, was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness first occurring around the age of 5 and a half years (a period known as the phallic stage in Freudian theory).
		Although Freud devoted most of his early literature to the Oedipus complex in males, by 1931 he was arguing that females do experience an Oedipus complex, and that in the case of females, incestuous desires are initially homosexual desires towards the mothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_complex (1625 words)

	Oedipus complex - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		OEDIPUS COMPLEX [Oedipus complex] Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus, designating attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own.
		Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by identification with the parent of the same sex and by the renunciation of sexual interest in the parent of the opposite sex.
		Freud considered this complex the cornerstone of the superego and the nucleus of all human relationships.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-oedipusc.html (275 words)

	The Classics Pages - Oedipus Tyrannos by Sophocles
		Oedipus goes in, continuing to insist he should be left to die on Cithaeron as the gods originally intended.
		Freud's famous 'Oedipus complex' may or may not make sense to psychologists, but it has no bearing on understanding the myth.(It is based on Jocasta's remark to her husband that many men have dreamed about sleeping with their mothers.
		Oedipus is thus the patron saint of philosophers, scientists, poets and artists - of all truth-seekers.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/myth.htm (1630 words)

	The Freud Page/ Glossary/ The Oedipus Complex
		Inspired by the Greek legend, Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, Freud's discovery of the Oedipus Complex was made during his self-analysis.
		The Oedipus Complex (3-5 years of age) is a characteristic constellation of loving and hostile wishes that children experience towards their parents at the height of the phallic phase.
		The decline of the Oedipus Complex and the entry into the latency period are related to threat of castration (boys) and the desire for a baby (girls).
	www.geocities.com /~mhrowell/oedipus_complex.html (365 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Oedipus - a Complex Character
		Oedipus at Colonus was the last of the three to be written, and was not staged until after Sophocles' death.
		When Oedipus refuses, there is a fight and the old man is killed, along with his retinue of slaves.
		When Oedipus tells her what the oracle said, Jocasta explains that she doesn't believe in oracles, as it was once predicted that Laius would be killed by his own son, when in fact the son was left to die as a baby and Laius was killed by 'robbers' at a place where three roads meet...
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A786413 (2034 words)

	NEW IDEAS ABOUT THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
		Oedipus fled from Corinth, 'never to see home again, That no such horror should ever pass' (ibid.), in order to avoid harming the man he believed to be his father and to avoid sleeping with the woman he believed to be his mother.
		The superego and the sense of guilt are sequels of the Oedipus complex (pp.
		First, Klein's views on the Oedipal situation and the Oedipus complex were developing in ways which interacted with the development of other major concepts, in particular, the depressive position, the paranoid-schizoid position and projective identification.
	www.human-nature.com /rmyoung/papers/pap121h.html (6288 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Oedipus Rex: The Oedipus Complex
		Oedipus is told, by a member of the royal court, of the prophecy of the Oracle.
		Oedipus refuses to believe that a prophecy such as that could ever come true and that Creon was either lying or has bribed the Oracle into giving a false prophecy.
		Oedipus plainly does not want to come to the reality that would ever do anything along the lines of what the prophecy states, and he truly believes that it must be incorrect because he knows he would never consciously do anything like that.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/c5/ejs190.shtml (753 words)

	Oedipus Complex
		Oedipus complex, a concept used in psychoanalysis, is a child's unconscious desire for the exclusive love of the parent of the opposite sex.
		Freud believed that the Oedipus complex is a normal part of human psychological growth.
		According to Freud, the principal reason for the weakening of the complex in boys is the fear of punishment from the father.
	www.a2zpsychology.com /psychology_guide/oedipus_complex.htm (260 words)

	Oedipus complex Encyclopedia of Psychology - Find Articles
		In traditional Freudian psychoanalytical theory, the term Electra complex was used when these unconscious wishes were attributed to a young girl and centered around sexual involvement with her father and jealous rivalry with her mother.
		Like Oedipus, Electra is a figure in Greek mythology who participated in the killing of her parent (in Electra's case, her mother).
		Contemporary psychology no longer distinguishes this complex by gender, and the Electra complex is included in the definition of the Oedipus complex.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0002/ai_2699000243 (438 words)

	Freud and Oedipus
		Oedipus demonstrated use of the Id by not being able to remember killing his father and then unknowingly hunting for himself.
		Oedipus would have had to have killed the King of Corinth, his adopted father, for Freud's theory to apply.
		Oedipus obviously loved the parents that had raised him or he never would have been so appalled at the prophecy that he left his home to ensure it did not come to pass.
	vccslitonline.cc.va.us /oedipusthewreck/complex.htm (1198 words)

	Oedipus as Evidence
		If Oedipus Rex moves a modern audience no less than it did the contemporary Greek one, the explanation can only be that its effect does not lie in the contrast between destiny and human will, but is to be looked for in the particular nature of the material on which that contrast is exemplified.
		The immediate cause of Oedipus' ruin is not "Fate" or "the gods"—no oracle said that he must discover the truth—and still less does it lie in his own weakness; what causes his ruin is his own strength and courage, his loyalty to Thebes, and his loyalty to the truth.
		Oedipus’ destiny is thereby psychologized in the Freudian sense; the religious meaning of the ancient fate is suppressed and made sympathetically understandable for the modern spectator from the standpoint of Oedipus’ individual psyche.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/articles/psyart1999/oedipus/armstr01.htm (11470 words)

	Complex (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an individual's otherwise mysterious condition: the detail varies widely from theory to theory.
		Some of the key complexes Jung wrote about were the anima (a node of unconscious beliefs and feelings in a man's psyche relating to the opposite gender) and animus (the corresponding complex in a woman's psyche); and the shadow (Jung's term embracing any aspect of psyche which has been excluded from conscious awareness).
		Freud held that the Oedipus complex was universal--reflecting developmental challenges that face every child--and was the central complex in most or all psychopathology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Complex_(psychology) (524 words)

	Sigmund Freud [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		He articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, of infantile sexuality, of repression, and proposed a tri-partite account of the mind's structure, all as part of a radically new conceptual and therapeutic frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions.
		This is followed by a stage in which the locus of pleasure or energy release is the anus, particularly in the act of defecation, and this is accordingly termed the 'anal' stage.
		Both the attraction for the mother and the hatred are usually repressed, and the child usually resolves the conflict of the Oedipus complex by coming to identify with the parent of the same sex.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/f/freud.htm (4636 words)

	Oedipus Complex
		–Thus, whether the Oedipus complex ends in a positive or negative result determines the future sexuality of the child.
		In "normal" development the Oedipus complex is dissolved or destroyed; if it is merely repressed, this can lead to an abnormal sexual development (see Freud Reader 664).
		The super-ego is born at the moment the Oedipus complex is dissolved.
	courses.washington.edu /freudlit/Oedipus.Notes.html (820 words)

	Definition: Oedipus Complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to Freud, Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex, illustrates a formative stage in each individual's psychosexual development, when the young child transfers his love object from the breast (the oral phase) to the mother.
		(The Oedipus complex is closely connected to the castration complex.) Such primal desires are, of course, quickly repressed but, even among the mentally sane, they will arise again in dreams or in literature.
		Among those individuals who do not progress properly into the genital phase, the Oedipus Complex, according to Freud, can still be playing out its psychdrama in various displaced, abnormal, and/or exaggerated ways.
	www.sla.purdue.edu /academic/engl/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/oedipus.html (153 words)

	LitGloss - O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Oedipus complex A Freudian term derived from Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.
		It describes a psychological complex that is predicated on a boy's unconscious rivalry with his father for his mother's love and his desire to eliminate his father in order to take his father's place with his mother.
		The female equivalent of this complex is called the Electra complex.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_o.html (374 words)

	Psychoanalysis - Oedipus Complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In his attitude towards his father and mother Hans confirms in the most concrete and uncompromising manner what I have said in my Interpretation of Dreams and in my Three Essays with regard to the sexual relations of a child to his parents.
		Hans really was a little Oedipus who wanted to have his father 'out of the way', to get rid of him, so that he might be alone with his beautiful mother and sleep with her.
		This wish had originated during his summer holidays, when the alternating presence and absence of his father had drawn Hans's attention to the condition upon which depended the intimacy with his mother which he longed for.
	www.freudfile.org /psychoanalysis/th5.html (266 words)

	Oedipus Complex - Online Dictionary of Mental Health
		It has always seemed odd to me that the Oedipus myth and complex should lie at the heart of our humanity.
		This analysis considers that, in addition to an oracular destiny determinated by deity, Oedipus realizes his own human destiny, which is the very conquest of the knowledge of his own identity.
		The author relates such a conquest to the psychoanalytic work, which enables each individual to get in touch with his deepest motivations and to develop a better self-consciousness.
	human-nature.com /odmh/oedipus.html (661 words)

	Galatea 2.2 Essays - The Oedipus Complex in Galatea 2.2
		The twisted version of the Oedipal Complex presented in Galatea 2.2 explains the interaction between Powers, Helen, and C. as that of a family, and throughout this depiction the Dialogical Method enhances this image.
		When Oedipus realizes that his wife is his mother he gauges out his eyes and becomes blind to the world.
		There is a role reversal in the Oedipus Complex presented in this novel because Powers serves as the mother, C. as the father, and Helen as the son.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=7235 (1199 words)

	Oedipus Complex
		One of the major discoveries made by Sigmund Freud was his theory called the Oedipus complex.
		The Oedipus complex can include the relationship of daughter and father, but for the purposes of this essay we will focus on the individual relationships between a son and each parent figure (mother and father assumingly).
		One may think this theory to be possible for a small few, but are quick to claim they do not and never have had a sexual attachment to their mother.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/91961/Terrorism.html (269 words)

	Sigmund Freud, creator of Oedipus Complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In addition, he also created many theories including the Oedipus complex.
		He specified this complex for every male child, who would compete with his father to win the love and admiration from his mother.
		Today, his creation of the Oedipus complex still remains well known.
	www.wiu.edu /users/muvck/sigmund.htm (253 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - NO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Odes are distinguished from other lyric poetic forms by their complex rhythmic and stanzaic patterns.
		Oedipus Complex: A son's amorous obsession with his mother.
		The phrase is derived from the story of the ancient Theban hero Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/glossary/glossary_no.htm (2134 words)

	AllRefer.com - Oedipus complex (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Oedipus complex (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia
		Oedipus complex, Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus, designating attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Oedipus complex
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Oedipusc.html (255 words)

	REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX by Raymond Federman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We've been told that all of us -- us males at any rate -- are afflicted with the Oedipus Complex.
		My complex surfaced when my mother gave me the last bath I ever got from her.
		I was standing in a cuvette of warm water in the kitchen.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/federman/shoes/oedipus.html (316 words)

	Resolving the Oedipus Complex
		In “Myths of Masculinity: The Oedipus Complex and Douglass’s 1845
		Narrative understood that forgiveness; understanding; confidence in the self and humanity; and God’s mercy, always trump metadiscourses that reduce man to a beast and a cipher of calculation.
		“Myths of Masculinity: The Oedipus Complex and Douglass’s 1845 Narrative.” In The Psychoanalysis of Race.
	www.nathanielturner.com /resolvingtheoedipalcomplex.htm (2557 words)

	Oedipus Complex
		We all know the story of Oedipus from the Greek myths as they portray him as the one who married his mother.
		Freud, therefore said this leads to the ‘Oedipus conflict or complex’ in young males.
		To understand exactly what Freud was trying to interpret we must first understand the life of Oedipus, define Oedipus complex, and then explain how this fits into today’s society.
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