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Cry and response
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
The Oedipal drama is well known in the modern era because of Freud’s famous application of Sophocles’ play to patterns of the unconscious. A widely accessible account of the psychoanalytic understanding of familial interactions is quoted: [The] Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a boy’s desire to sexually possess his mother, and kill his father. Sigmund Freud, who coined the term “Oedipus complex”, believed that the Oedipus complex is a desire for the mother in both sexes.In classical, Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the child’s identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex and of the Electra complex; his and her key psychological experience to developing a mature sexual role and identity.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_complex) In this formulation there is a focus of desire on certain fantasied events (kill father; sexually possess mother). There is also emphasis on identification with the same sex parent. However, identification is not simply equivalence. In actual development ongoing involvement with parents supports a sense of continuity and a model for learning that depends more on a sense of similarity rather than strict identity.
Major Schools of Psychology
Published in Mohamed Ahmed Abd El-Hay, Understanding Psychology for Medicine and Nursing, 2019
During the phallic stage, the primary focus of the libido is on the genitals. At this age, children begin to discover the differences between males and females. According to Freud, boys begin to view their fathers as a competitor for the mother’s affections. The Oedipus complex describes these feelings of wanting to possess the mother and the desire to replace the father. However, the child fears that he will be punished by the father for these feelings. Freud called this fear castration anxiety. Freud, however, believed that girls experience penis envy, and begin to hate their mother for not giving a penis to them. The girl then transfers her love to her father, and competes with her mother. The term “Electra complex” has been used to describe a girl’s sense of competition with her mother for the affections of her father. The Oedipus complex is resolved when the parents allow their same-sex children to identify with them and learn how to properly mirror their behavior and learn how to properly act within society. Freud argued that boys will normally eventually abandon their love of the mother, and instead identify with the father, taking on the father’s personality characteristics. For girls, however, Freud believed that penis envy was never fully resolved and that all women remain somewhat fixated at this stage. Psychologists such as Karen Horney disputed this assumption, calling it both inaccurate and demeaning to women. Instead, Horney proposed that men experience feelings of inferiority because they cannot give birth to children.
Psychology and Human Development EMIs
Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Androgyny.Basic gender identity.Electra complex.Gender consistency.Gender identity.Gender schemas.Gender stability.Oedipus complexSex role.Sexual identity.
Breaking the Silences about Non-hetero Female Sexuality in Saghi Ghahraman’s Poetry
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2021
The poem embodies such ambivalence that it makes the reader question it on multiple levels. It forces the reader to think through the whole structure of heteropatriarchal families, and even matriarchal families, when thinking about the incest taboo. For instance, the reader cannot help but think of it as a fantasy of incestual revenge either as a survivor of abuse or as a fantasy to disrupt heterosexual socialization. The poem could also be read as a literal scene of grandma’s death but also the death of heterosexual family; figuratively it could mean the death of heteropatriarchy. Ghahraman makes the reader wonder if the poem is merely about incest or the grandmother’s bisexuality/homosexuality and her awareness about female same-sex attraction. The poem can also be interpreted as a reference to the fantasy of incest while having sex with an older woman, not related but called “grandma”—of course the title disrupts this interpretation to some extent. Finally, it can be also understood as disruption of hetero-supremacy that abjects nuclear family structure in an effort to disrupt Freudian ideas of sex (Oedipal/Electra complex, phallocentrism).
Moving Forward: Giving Voice to Partners in a Relationship With Those in Gender Transition
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2022
In addition to describing affected shifts of some couples’ relationship structures, most partners discussed how their partner’s transition impacted facets of their sexual and intimate lives together, often fostering feelings of loss and/or possible grief. Though some partners conveyed that their significant other’s social transition may have played a role in these intimate evolutions, this was especially true when the TGNB partner’s gender journey involved any form of a medical transition. Social and/or medical aspects of the transition can serve as catalysts that result in how the sexual and intimacy dynamics within a trans relationship advances. I miss a male presence the most. I know that it is hokey and trite and lame and so societally constructed, but [I miss] … feeling protected by a male, supported by a male, and physically feeling a male body holding me. [I miss] feeling a male body when we’re in bed and my spouse wants to cuddle or spoon me. I have always been about gender equality and arguing with my professor in college about the Electra Complex and talking about the power that wom[e]n have and that they’ve always had. So, I feel like a massive hypocrite admitting, “Yes, I like to feel held by a man, to feel supported by a man, emotionally and physically.” Probably because I am constantly pushing forward, taking on a million things at once, and caring for others, I would like to feel that when I come home—[I have] strong arms holding me, tucking myself under a tall person’s chin, as if I’m being sheltered by a tree. (Maynard, 2020, Lisa in manuscript of play in preparation)