Mummy's Boy & Daddy's Girl

[Gibbon]

Doing some preliminary work on Oedipus for my next OU course I came across Freud’s interpretation and it’s a bit scary.

Oedipus was a tragic character that ended up unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. When he found out he tore his own eyes.

Freud reckons it’s a primal urge in us all to supplant our fathers in our mother’s affections and vice versa for girls!

[Platypus]

Hasn't Freud been largely discredited ?

[norrahe]

Doing some preliminary work on Oedipus for my next OU course I came across Freud’s interpretation and it’s a bit scary.

Oedipus was a tragic character that ended up unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. When he found out he tore his own eyes.

Freud reckons it’s a primal urge in us all to supplant our fathers in our mother’s affections and vice versa for girls!

You might want to have a read of Freud's The interpretation of Dreams, iirc chapter 9 talks a lot about the Oedipus complex.

[MarillionFan]

Doing some preliminary work on Oedipus for my next OU course I came across Freud’s interpretation and it’s a bit scary.

Oedipus was a tragic character that ended up unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. When he found out he tore his own eyes.

Freud reckons it’s a primal urge in us all to supplant our fathers in our mother’s affections and vice versa for girls!

I've always thought Suity has an Oedipus complex.

[socialworker]

Ah, Freud. Did anyone see the documentary on
Princess Alice of Greece a while back. She was certainly a little odd, probably schizophrenic or bipolar, so she was put away in a bin. Freud was brought in to "treat" her, such treatment consisting of strapping her to an iron bed and massively irradiating her ovaries.

Nice.

[Platypus]

Ah, Freud. Did anyone see the documentary on
Princess Alice of Greece a while back. She was certainly a little odd, probably schizophrenic or bipolar, so she was put away in a bin. Freud was brought in to "treat" her, such treatment consisting of strapping her to an iron bed and massively irradiating her ovaries.

Nice.

Oh, a bit like ECT then?

[Gibbon]

You might want to have a read of Freud's The interpretation of Dreams, iirc chapter 9 talks a lot about the Oedipus complex.

No I don't, I'm already put off. Feckin freaky!

[OwlHoot]

Doing some preliminary work on Oedipus for my next OU course I came across Freud’s interpretation and it’s a bit scary.

Oedipus was a tragic character that ended up unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. When he found out he tore his own eyes.

Freud reckons it’s a primal urge in us all to supplant our fathers in our mother’s affections and vice versa for girls!

You may be interested in Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, by Sigmund Freud

[Doggy Styles]

Hasn't Freud been largely discredited ?

It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.

[NotAllThere]

Oedipus, shmeoedipus. What does it matter so long as a boy loves his mother?

Not just Freud has been discredited, but there's debate about whether psychology has any claim whatsoever to be a science.