Freud’s Oedipus Complex theory
...ly tries to prevent the parricide/incest from happening much like how most parent will try to break their child of their Oedipus Complex, but the process cannot be prevented or it may seriously affect the child’s well being. The actual story of Oedipus differs slightly from Freud’s theory. In this theory a male child, age three to five has sexual feelings towards his own mother. These feeling are so strong that he will feel a sense of compaction from his father and want to eliminate him. There is also another theory much like the Oedipus Complex in which “girls have a similar sexual desire for the father which is repressed in analogous fashion and is called the Electra complex” (Iverson). These are both stages that everyone is believed to go through in their adolescence. Many researchers believe so firmly in Freud’s theory that they think that the book “Oedipus Rex, illustrates a formative stage in each individual's psychosexual development”(Felluga). It is said that if a child is some how prevented from having or having the Oedipus Complex for an extended amount of time could severely effect that person’s...