Oedipus complex
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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual desire for his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual devel
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)
Phallic stage
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In Freudian psychoanalysis, the phallic stage is the third stage of psychosexual development, spanning the ages of three to six years, wherein the infant's libido centers upon their genitalia as the e
Oedipus complex
…psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual desire for his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. A daughter's sexual desire for her father and hostility toward her mother is referred to as the feminine (or female) Oedipus…
The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (ca. 1921)
Freud's couch, London, 2004