Weird (perhaps sick) thought on sexual taboos...

[wayoftheleaf]

Yah that's it.

Anyhow it creates the basics for sexual urges for reproduction or something. I read it somewhere. Damn ic an always remember what something is about just not sources and shit.

[birdgirl73]

His name was Sigmund Freud, and the theory of the Oedipal conflict/attachment wasn't about reproduction, WayoftheLeaf, it was about children's unconscious desire for the parent of the opposite sex, a phase they go through in early childhood and which Freud believed could be the origin of childhood and adult neuroses. Freud was also the one who defined the early childhood phases with names (oral, anal, phallic) and believed that trouble in those phases accounted for different character fixations later in life. According to Papa Freud, Oedipal conflicts arise during the phallic stage of children's development from age 3 to 7.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosexual_development

Oedipal and psychosexual development theory is complex, and much of it is no longer subscribed to in modern psychology, although Freudian psychiatrists and analysts are still heavily invested in most of it. We studied Freud's theories (and many others) earlier this past semester in my medical psychopathology class.

[sweet jane]

Object relations is a real new surge in psych (spawning books with titles like "This Changes Everythinig"), but other than that, I love the general abandonment of Freud. I studied in London over the summer, and they were all shocked that American college students, in general, learn to laugh at Freud. I've wondered if those profs opinion is the universal one in the UK.

[gabee42ee]

i think the oedipus complex applys for boys wanting there moms and there is the castration complex for when girls apparently want there dads ...

[aznson01]

y would u wanna picture family naked?

[stinkyattic]

i think the oedipus complex applys for boys wanting there moms and there is the castration complex for when girls apparently want there dads ...

that would be an Elektra complex.

[jaGerbom]

........ew