Oedipus complex
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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual
Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805
Sigmund Freud (age 16) with his mother in 1872
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau (1864)
Otto Rank on the far left, behind Sigmund Freud, and other psychoanalysts (1922)
Feminists have long struggled with Sigmund Freud's classical model of gender and identity development, which centers on the Oedipus complex. Freud's model, which became integral to orthodox psychoanal
Sphinx & Oedipus
