I have a question. Yes, it may be a gay-related question, but it's been bothering me and I want to ask before I forget. What would Freud say when confronted with the question of whether I had an Elektra complex or an Oedipus complex?
Elektra,
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FiZ said, (273 days ago)
With the proper technology, this question could power the world with the harnessed energy of Freud spinning in his grave. Suffice it to say, I'm completely stumped.
Tophy said, (273 days ago)
@Clum -- Haha, sorry. In Freudian developmental psychology, something Freud claimed we all go through is either the Elektra complex (in short, when females desire a penis because they don't have one) or it's counterpart for males, the Oedipus complex.
@FiZ -- Freud HAD to have had some sort of excuse. I can't remember too clearly from my psychology lectures, but I recall he postulated a few things about homosexuality. Whether or not he ever came up with the stages of psychosexual development for homosexuals, or where psychosexual development "went wrong" (as people in that time period would put it), is a mystery to me. One I'm hoping to solve here! :D
Make Art said, (273 days ago)
Maybe he'd send you over to Deleuze and Guttari to discuss the Anti-Oedipal.
I'm out of my depth, so I couldn't say for sure.
Salomea said, (228 days ago)
Rather than realizing you could not have your mother or kill your father, but must emulate your father and find yourself another "mother," you decided to become your mother. Also, I think you may be in denial about your mother's castrated nature, but I forget.
I mean, seriously. I desire a penis, yes, but I already have one! So what's the deal there?