PSY 223 Lecture 6: 6
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Phallic stage: pez = genitals, conflict = oedipus, successful conflict resolution (normal development, repressed castration anxiety (from being in love with your mother) Identification with father: (cid:862)the superego is the heir of the oedipus complex(cid:863) Letter from freud to wilheim fliess re: oedipal complex. A single idea of general value dawned on me. I have found, in my own case too, the phenomena of being in love with my mother and jealous of my father, and now i. Takes the information from a few cases and called it a universal event consider it a universal event in early childhood. A patient, an obsessional neurotic, describes fear of killing people; ruminates on an alibi. Freud diagnoses this as a defense against a murder he has already wished to commit i. e. , against his father in childhood have to get rid of dad to be with mom. Freud is reminded of the greek tragedy of oedipus.
