Testing the Theory of the Oedipus Complex :: Psychology Psychological Experiment

Abstract from Paper___________________________________________________THEORY If a pillow slip in the experimental group shows more aggressive behaviortoward his convey and increased affectionate behavior toward their mother afterreceiving the subliminal messages and the inhibit group shows no increase whenshown neutral messages, then it will be nurturen that the Oedipus Complex does infact exist in the unconscious(p). To prove this we bring the behavior out from theunconscious to the sub conscious by means of the subliminal messages. These boyshave repressed these feelings for so long because it is too dreaded for them todeal with.______________________________________________________Research Paper Begins HereThe positive libidinal feelings of a chela to the parent of the oppositesex and hostile or prehensile feelings toward the parent of the same sex that maybe a character reference of adult personality disorder when unresolved. It is a pattern ofprofound worked up ambi valence, a troublesome mixture of love and hate.The Oedipus Complex occurs during the phallic stage, from round ages3-6 years. Freud believed that during this stage boys seek genital stimulationand develop both unconscious desires for their mother and jealousy and execrationfor their father, whom they consider a rival. It was said that boys matte up guiltand lurking fear that their father would punish them, such as by castration.Freud also believed that conscience and gender identity form as the childresolved the Oedipus Complex at age 5 or 6, but this actually happens earlier.A child tends to become strongly masculine or feminine without even having thesame sex parent present.Freud argues that all sons unconsciously desire to kill, even if theylove, their fathers. He found his own unconscious worry to murder his father inhis intensive self analysis in 1897, shortly after the death of his father.Freud says it is only the male child that we baring the fatefulcombination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred for the other asa rival. Freud believed Oedipal was a normal part of mankind psychological growthand it is during this stage children produce emotional conflicts.Other psychoanalysts believed that girls cognize a parallel calledthe Electra Complex. This comes from a Greek legend of a women named Electrawho helped plan the murder of her mother.The Oedipus Complex originates from a myth about a Greek hero namedOedipus, written by Sophocles. Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta who inthe fulfillment of an oracle unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother.When Oedipus and Jocasta realize what has happened, Jocasta hangs herself andhe rips the golden brooches from his perfectly mothers gown and plunges them deep