The Oedipus complex

Team 4

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• Choose topic about Oedipus complex
• Write your choice in the table
• If you want other topic, feel free to suggest it to your teacher
• Present the topic in the ppt
• Find enigmas about it
• Don’t forget to cite your sources

Question n°1: Oedipus complex

It refers to a complex set of childhood emotions and feelings characterized by the simultaneous and ambivalent presence of loving and hostile desires towards parents.

In general terms, Freud defines the Oedipus complex as the unconscious desire to maintain a sexual relationship (incestuous) with the parent of the opposite sex and to eliminate the parent of the same sex (parricide)

Question nº 2 : How does the Oedipus complex manifest itself

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The complex usually appears between the ages of three and seven and some its symptoms are :

• Demand attention from the mother constantly
• Often the boy can express his desire to marry mom
• Feelings of possession towards the mother
• Anger and jealousy
• Recurring nightmares

Question n°3

Does he refers to Electra complex?

Freud says the girls feel resentment toward their mothers.

Jung says “Electra Complex” means attachment toward her father and his dislike her mother.Electra merdered her mother according to Greek mythology.

Oidipus refer to Oidipus complex relevant to boys and girls.

That have critisized from other psychotherapist and cannot accept it.

What is the psychoanalysis ?

Psychoanalysis is a discipline founded by Sigmund Freud in 1992 but it is difficult to date his birth precisely and different dates could be retained: 1881-1882 with Josef Breuer and Anna O Is a method of treating mental disorders, shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which is based on unconscious mental processes and is sometimes described as "depth psychology".The psychoanalytic movement has its origins in the clinical observations of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who coined the term psychoanalysis. In the 1890s, Freud worked with Austrian physician and physiologist Josef Breuer. They studied neurotic patients under hypnosis.

« Son seul but et sa seule contribution consistent à découvrir l’inconscient dans la vie psychique. »

« Une psychanalyse n’est pas une recherche scientifique impartiale, mais un acte thérapeutique, elle ne cherche pas par essence à prouver, mais à modifier quelque chose. »

Question n°5 : Who is Sigmung Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was the founder of psychoanalysis, a theory of how the mind works and a method of helping people in mental distress.

Freud was born on 6 May 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia to a family of Jewish wool merchants.

Freud has published a number of important works on psychoanalysis. Some of the most influential include : Studies in Hysteria(1895). Freud and Breuer published their theories and findings in this book.

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Question n°6

Enigmas

What age does the Oedipus complex appear?

• Between three and twelve
• Between three and seven. +
• There is not age for it to hurt to appear
• who invented the concept of psychoanalysis ?

What is Electra complex?

a.Dislike father

b.dislike mother(true)

c.Dislike friends

Sitography

https://www.freud.org.uk/education/resources/who-was-sigmund-freud/

https://www.biography.com/scholar/sigmund-freud

https://www.okdialy.com

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