Oedipus+Complex

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In the Oedipus complex a boy is fixated on his mother and competes with his father for maternal attention. Sexual Awakening: The child realizes that there is a difference between their mother and their father. Around the same time they realize that they are more alike to one than the other. Thus the child acquires gender.

Jealousies: The primitive desire for the one parent may also awaken in the child a jealous motivation to exclude the other parent. Transferring of affections may also occur as the child seeks to become independent and escape a percieved 'engulfing mother'.

Transitioning: Critical stage is loosening of the ties to the mother of vulnerability dependence and intimacy. This a natural part of the child becoming more indepedent and is facilitated by the realization that the mother desires more than just the child. Mother becomes a separate object removed from his ideal self. Thus she can be the subject of object love.

Separation: The boy thus returns to the mother as a separate individual. That separation may be emphasized with scorn and a sense of mastery over women. Women become thus both desired and feared. The symbolic phallus as opposed the penis is used as a symbol of masculine power and female lack.

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