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Article: The Oedipus complex.(PSYCHOSEXUAL THEORY OF THE MONTH)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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"It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father."--Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
This from a cokehead who smoked twenty stogies a day, who based his theory of infantile sexuality on his memory of being aroused as a small boy by the sight of his naked mother, who at the age of seven or eight purposely pissed in his parents' boudoir.
Thing is, the depressive Viennese motherfucker was on the money with the Oedipus complex--absolutely nailed it. Not that you'd ever know it from reading the parboiled dim-witticisms of any post-Spock ...