Oedipus complex. Young R.

In the life of children there is an age when boys want to own their mother undividedly, and girls - their father. Freud called this period in the development of the child with an Oedipus complex.

Robert M. Young, a professor of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the University of Sheffield, gives an overview of views on the problems of the Oedipus complex, considers discussions and disputes on this issue, in particular, theory gays, lesbians and feminists who declare their uniqueness in terms of the Oedipus complex.