Oedipus refers to a 5th-century BC Greek mythological character Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, See more

Original formulation
Freud's original examples of the Oedipus complex are applied only to boys or men; he never fully clarified his views on the nature of the … See more

Lack of empirical basis
Studies conducted of children's attitudes to parents at the oedipal stage do not demonstrate the shifts in positive feelings that are predicted by the theory. Case studies that Freud relied upon, such as the case of Little Hans, … See more

Carl Gustav Jung
In response to Freud's proposal of the Oedipus complex, which was initially more focused on the little boy's experience of desire for the mother … See more

• Britton, Ronald. "The missing link: parental sexuality in the Oedipus complex." In The gender conundrum, pp. 91–104. Routledge, 2003.
• Britton, Ronald, Michael Feldman, … See more