His mother was a very controlling and scheming woman who did not allow Norman to have any social life. ... To conclude, Norman was a serial killer who had psychotic behaviors, suffering from visual and auditory hallucinations that flew into murderous rages targeting women who aroused him. ... Norman went from having infantile sexuality to developing the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus complex is a term used by Freud that describes how during childhood a child desires to sleep with his mother and has feelings of killing his father. Norman was the ideal candidate for the Oedipus complex. ...

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Abstract Psychology Theories Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous psychologists to ever hit the study of psychology. His name alone symbolizes the importance of his theories, and the name that comes to most people's heads when saying the word psychology is Sigmund Freud.  In the followin...

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"The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a story about a young boy who is desperately searching for luck and money in order to please his unhappy mother. ... Also, along with being a relationship based theory, the psychological aspect of the story also somewhat reflects Freud's Oedipus complex. ... Hopefully, most people believe in the latter alternative, for it is these people who will truly find success. ...

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Freud believed that the child would often develop a what he referred to as the oedipus complex. ... Those people who do not adhere to the social gender norms are thought to have been fixated in one of the psychosexual stages of development and homosexuality therefore, would be diagnosed as an illness according to Freud. ...

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The person who influenced Freud the most was Ernst Brucke, who along with colleges founded the materialistic-positivistic movement in psychology. ... In 1884, he gave cocaine to his friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, who was addicted to morphine. ...

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