Comparative Literature and Culture 2125A/B Chapter Notes -Libido, Castration Anxiety, Oedipus Complex

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A boy"s mother was his first love-object; he remains so, and, as his feelings for her become more passionate and he understands more of the relation between father and mother, the former inevitably appears as a rival. Second change which appears to us no less characteristic and important for feminine development: the original mother-object has to be exchanged for the father. First, analysis has shown that where the attachment to the father was peculiarly strong it had been preceded by a phase of equally strong and passionate attachment exclusively to the mother. The primary mother relation had developed in a very rich and many sided way. Secondly, i learn that the duration of this attachment to the mother had been greatly underestimated. I"ve due weight to the possibility that many a woman may remain arrested at the original mother-attachment and never properly achieve the change-over to men. This phase of mother-attachment is especially closely connected with the aetiology of hysteria.

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