King Oedipus
The mythical story of the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, "King Oedipus", describes the fate of the Oedipus prince who was destined to kill his father and take his mother as his wife. Although he was careful all his life and tried his best to avoid it, he still unknowingly committed two major crimes of killing his father and marrying his mother. Freud believed that the plot reflected the boy's instinctive desire to love his mother and hate his father, while the girl had an Oedipus complex. In the early stages of infant and young child sexual development, the selection object first begins with both parents, boys take the mother as the choice object, and girls often choose the father as the choice object. The child makes such a choice, on the one hand, because of his own "sexual instincts", but also because the stimulation of his parents reinforces this tendency, that is, because the mother prefers the son and the father prefers the daughter.
Oedipus complex
All of Freud's theories were based on the instincts of babies, one of which he called "sexual desire." But sexuality here is not between adults, but a deep desire for pleasure and satisfaction.
As a weak being, he must devote himself to his mother, and this attachment is a very domineering feeling (my mother belongs to me alone). But as the baby grows older, he will find that the mother does not belong to him alone, but also to a person who is more powerful and authoritative than he is— the father. Freud believed that children had mixed feelings for their fathers. He instinctively jealousy of his father who had robbed him of his mother's love, and feared that his father would find out his jealousy and punish himself, while at the same time hoping that he could become a powerful person like his father and once again gain all his mother's love. In this emotional struggle, the infant needs to strike a balance between instinctive desire and rational repression of desire, so at this point the "self" that coordinates the "original self" and the "superego" begins to develop rapidly.
Experiments in the early 1960s vividly demonstrated the strong maternal and infant attachment of primates and the effect of this emotion on the physiology and psychology of animals.
Oedipus
conflict
There were 3 major conflicts during the Oedipus period
1. Desire for success and fear of punishment that may follow
2. Male and female
3. Life and death
In adulthood, some people will have some troubles, some problems, these performances show that the conflicts in this period may not be resolved, such as: the key exams are always off the chain and dare not take lightly, and happiness will be punished