Personal Response To The Oedipus Complex?

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Personal Response to "The Oedipus Complex" Oedipus complex is a theory made by Sigmund Frued. It is defined as, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex; a crucial stage in the normal developmental process (Britannica.com). This article talks about a son will see his father as a rival for his mother’s affection and he wishes to have her affection. Oedipus, in Oedipus Rex, unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. He had two sons and tow daughters with him. They did not know they were mother and son. When Oedipus realized he married his mother and killed his father he blinded himself and left. In Hamlet, Hamlet holds back these feelings …show more content…

I usually do not remember any of my dream so I talked with a friend and had him explain one he had the other night. In his dream his front teeth fell out. He woke up freaking out. Earlier in that day he was at band practice and his instrument bang his front two teeth causing that to hurt a lot. It makes sense why he would dream about that since his teeth were already hurting. Another one of my friends had an anxiety dream the night before she was going to take her first test in college. In the dream she went and took the test felt really good about it, but when she got her grade back she failed the test. I noticed with all of these dreams they come from when people are stressing over things right before they went to bed, either it is when they hurt their teeth during band or study for their first college test. “Axiety-dreams only occurs the censorship has been wholly or partly overpowered; and, on the other hand, overpowering of the censorship is facilitated if anxiety has been already been produced as an immediate sensation arising from somatic sources (Freud, p. 923). Dreams reflect what a person thinks about before they fall asleep or what they have been thinking about throughout the …show more content…

Parents should try as much as they can to help their child or help them get them the help that they need. If the child is too hard for the parents or is trying to hurt parents or sibling then they should be sent somewhere they can get help. A person should not feel bad about sending them somewhere for help, it is good for the child and the parent. A parent needs to do whatever they can to help their child no matter what is happening. We all can relate to the Oedious, the second he realized what he did he was filled with guilt. He felt so guilty when he found out he killed his own father that he blinded himself and ran away. Whenever anyone does something bad they are filled with guilt and want to get as far away as they can from the situation. A person might not actually run away physically, but mentally they will try their hardest to get away from it. The Oedipus Complex shows the affection a son shows their mothers and can help explain certain things that was going on in the persons mind. Dreams say a lot about what is going on in a person’s life. Anxiety dreams show what people are stressing about through out their day or before they feel asleep. I think that maybe when sons are dreaming about sexual with their mothers it could be because they are feeling a lot closer to their mothers more than they usually do. Dreams are a very interesting thing that show what is going on through someones mind without even realizing

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