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Oedipus Complex by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Oedipus Complex by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Who was Sigmund Freud?. Lived in Vienna Once a physician , later a psychologist A major founder of modern psychiatry Trained in scientific method, but interested in hypnosis and the workings of the mind

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Oedipus Complex by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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  1. Oedipus Complexby Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

  2. Who was Sigmund Freud? • Lived in Vienna • Once a physician , later a psychologist • A major founder of modern psychiatry • Trained in scientific method, but interested in hypnosis and the workings of the mind • Also influenced by Joseph Breuer and “talking out your problems”

  3. Freud’s legacy of ideas • Psychoanalytic theory devised and developed by Freud continuously for over 40 years • Freud lists the essential cornerstones of psychoanalytic theory as : --Unconscious mental processes --Resistance and repression --Sexuality and the Oedipus complex --Importance of infantile experiences

  4. Analysing the Unconscious mind • Freud’s consulting room - the couch • Middle class patients with neuroses • Interpretation of dreams, slips of the tongue and slips of the pen, jokes, childhood memories, self-analysis • Developed and refined his theory of personality

  5. Oedipus Complex • Freud was interested in the affections of children for the parent of the opposite sex • He observed that men tend to spoil their daughters and women their sons • He cited sayings of children – “Mummy can go away…Daddy will marry me and I will be his wife!” • He compared it to the gripping power of the Greek legend Oedipus Rex – that it is recognised in all of us • For Freud this complex was “The central phenomenon of the sexual period of early childhood • The child resolves the subsequent conflict by identification with the same sex parent

  6. SourcesLeeds University – Englandhttp://search.leeds.ac.uk/search?q=oedipus&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=corporate&proxystylesheet=corporate&site=default_collection

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