The Big Picture

So I didn’t really have anything planned for this post … so I think I’m going to connect my theme of relationships to what I’m learning about in my psychology of personality class right now.  I’ve recently been reading about Freud and his views on the Oedipal complex and things like that, and I figured it was pretty interesting so I’ll share it with you.  This way I’ve still kept my promise of updating daily, with the same overall theme, AND you’ll be more knowledgable for reading it.  

Or so I hope!

Anyway, Oedipus was this warrior a long time ago who did battle with a bunch of people and made his way to this town that was held captive by a Sphinx.  The only way to save the town was to answer the riddle, and Oedipus figured it out.  The town was so happy that he saved them that they married him to their Queen so that he would be King.  Now … I’m sure most of you know this story, but as it turns out, Oedipus was actually the Queen’s son.  Basically, he’d killed his father and married his mother.  

Gross eh?

But that’s what Freud’s Oedipus complex is all about.  Basically, young boys all want to have their mothers in a “sensual way”.  And in order to do that, they would have to kill their father to keep him out of the picture.  Eventually they grow out of it and resolve all of their Oedipus issues.  Now … most people think Freud is all bullshit.  However, there is some truth to way he’s come up with.  Some people do go through and Oedpus-like complex, but not everyone.  Freud was a really smart guy for living way back then and basically creating the school of psychology, but not alot of his theories hold up much actual evidence today.

It’s still something interesting to know though, and I figured it was a fitting story to be told here because well, what could possibly be more important than a child’s first relationship with their parents?

Also notice how the Oedipus complex mainly relates to son’s here.  Don’t even get me started on Freud’s translation of the Oedipus complex to daughter’s … it’s full of things like “penis envy” and resenting mother’s because it’s their fault they’re powerless because they don’t have one.

Anyway, signing off now,
-Anne Onymous

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