... world. No other important English novel seems to offer quite such a stark illustration of an 'Oedipus complex' "4 What is "Oedipus complex"5? In psychoanalytic theory, it is a son unconscious sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex ... his mother enjoyably. In his subconsciousness, he reckons that he almost replaces his father in the family and wants such situation emergence. When he becomes involved with Miriam, the l...

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