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.
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It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.Originally posted by Platypus View PostHasn't Freud been largely discredited ?
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You may be interested in Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics, by Sigmund FreudOriginally posted by Gibbon View PostDoing 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!
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Oh, a bit like ECT then?Originally posted by socialworker View PostAh, 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.
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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.
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I've always thought Suity has an Oedipus complex.Originally posted by Gibbon View PostDoing 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!
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You might want to have a read of Freud's The interpretation of Dreams, iirc chapter 9 talks a lot about the Oedipus complex.Originally posted by Gibbon View PostDoing 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!
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Mummy's Boy & Daddy's Girl
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!Tags: None
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