The journal of Psychoanalytical Study of English Language and Literature
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Oedipus Complex (Electra Complex)
Chokuso Nomura
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1980 Volume 1980 Issue 3 Pages 51-58

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[I] Oedipus Complex A. (1) The outline of King Oedipus by Sophocles. (2) Oedipus did not know the murder of his father by himself, and succeeded to the father's throne, making his mother his own "Qeen" without any knowledge of the truth of these facts, and without never falling in love with his mother. It is only the destiney of the oracle by Apollo. As the resulting disaster in his dispair, he forced to make himself blind, exiled out of his ruling country. "The myth can be understood as a symble not of the incestuous love between mother and son but of the rebellion of the son against the authority of the father in the partriarchal family; that the marriage of Oedipus and Jocasta is only a secondary element, only one of the symbols of the victory of the son, who takes his father's place with it all his privileges. " (The Forgotton Language by Fromm p.202)B. Antigone by Sophocles. (Conscious Oedipus complex between father and son)[II] Electra Complex (Chiefly through My Mother-My Self by Nancy Friday)With the daughter's envy, and jealousy of her mother, (attached to the closeness to and the bymbosis to the mother), the girl wants to be loved by her father, taking the place of her mother. Father must love his daughter with his wife in love.
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