... 's erogenous zone is the genital region. As the child becomes more interested in his genitals, and in the genitals of others, conflict arises. The conflict, labeled the Oedipus complex (The Electra complex in women), involves the child's unconscious desire to possess the opposite-sexed parent and to eliminate the same-sexed one. Freud implies that in the young male, the Oedipus ... is the superego, the voice of the father within the boy. By thus resolving his incestuous conundrum, the boy passes into the latency period, a period of libidinal dormancy. On the Electra complex, Freud was mo...

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... young boys begin the Oedipus phase, where he fears his father and castration while a the same time fantasizing about sexual relations with his mom. The young girl, however, enters the Electra phase, where she experiences penis envy. This often causes her to turn away from sexual life completely. After the phallic stage there is a period of latency. In this phase sexual ... ...

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... boys, this is called the Oedipus Complex. This name comes from the Greek myth "Oedipus" where he kills his father and marries his mother unconsciously. The girls" complex is called Electra Complex and works the same way as the Oedipus Complex. During this time the boys can often have castration anxiety. They have a fear that their father will found out that ... ...

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... the opposite sex. Male Phallic Stage is known as Oedipus complex and it involves the mother as a love object for the young boy. The female phallic stage is known as Electra Complex and it involves the young girls strive for her fathers love an approval. How the parents respond to this stage verbally and non-verbally has an impact on sexual ... ...

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... . Freud's most controversial idea is that this normal healthy child will grow up developing feelings of sexual attraction to the opposite sex-parent, known as the Oedipus Complex and the Electra Complex. On the opposite end, Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory explained that development was the outcome between internal drives and cultural demands. Erickson was focused more on the psychosocial rather than ... ...

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... his sexual desire for his mother by removing his genitals. Oedipus complex is the unconscious wish of all male children to kill their fathers and sexually possess their mothers. The Electra complex is the transfer of a young girl's sexual desires from her mother to her father after she discovers she has no penis. Not only were these some of the ideas ... ...

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... this point all three components of the mind, the Id, Ego, and Superego are developed. During the phallic stage, one might go through the oedipal conflict, as a boy or the Electra conflict, as a girl meaning that they desire that parent of the opposite sex. Once the children realize that they cannot be with their mother or father, they identify with the ... ...

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