... . 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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... 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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