Robert E. Howard
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Robert Ervin Howard was an American author, known for writing pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor
Howard in 1934
Robert E. Howard at about five years old (circa 1911)
The Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas
Robert E. Howard in his Senior Year at Brownwood High School, 1923
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
Robert E. Howard
…has been much debated, both during his life and following his suicide. Three main points of view exist: some have declared that Howard suffered from an Oedipal complex or similar; another viewpoint is that Howard suffered from major depressive disorder; the third view is that Howard had no disorders and his suicide…
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)