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"The Oedipus complex" is Sigmund Freud's theory in which he believes through a self-analysis that all children go through a stage in which they "love their opposite-sex parent and hate their same-sex parent." Having these thoughts normally happen in your unconscious mind as in when you're dreaming. Many people wake up feeling guilty for having these thoughts, but it is completely a normal stage if you don't feel like you will actually act out on these dreams. It also has to do with your superego. You don't show feelings from your superego very often because it shows your unconscious feelings. Freud also states that most children outgrow these feelings about their parents and those that do not "need psychoanalytic help."
The name of "The Oedipus complex" comes from the legend of King Oedipus in which he kills his father Laius and marries his mother Jocasta. An oracle had predicted to Laius that his son would kill him. They feared Oedipus so much that they abandoned him. In the......

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