Name: What is Psychoanalysis? Part 3: The Oedipus Complex
Uploaded: 2018-07-26T16:35:42.000Z
Duration: 10 min 45 s
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Well, the emotional world of little children

you're being asked to do such difficult things,

as a figure who's at the centre of everything.

And for Freud, the Oedipus complex is about

The Oedipus complex is a genuine complex.

it is about that the child loves the parent

There was the early idea in psychoanalysis

and some people today still believe in that.

what children want is, at the Oedipal stage,

and certainly not the idea that it involves

what adults would consider to be genital sex.

And so if, as a, I don't know, a 23 year old,

you say 'I want to have sex with that person',

So it might want to rub its genitals against her,

that then it might never want never want to

it might find that just ultimately disgusting.

There's a competition, there's a rivalry of some sort.

and hatred as it weaves itself into that.

Its got the hate for any rival: a sibling, a father.

from the love and hate for the same person,

The child will naturally cling to the mother.

Now, when the mother also clings to the child

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What is Psychoanalysis? Part 3: The Oedipus Complex

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