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“My Oedipus Complex�
In “My Oedipus Complex� Frank O’Connor uses the interesting theory that infamous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud create to tell a clever story about a young boy, Larry, who grows up in his own safe world with just himself and his mother. However, when his father, which Larry often refers to as Santa Claus, returns from World War I it is a constant battle between the two for the mother’s love and attention.Father was in the army all through the war—the first war, I mean–so up
to the age of five, I never saw much of him, and what I saw did not worry
me. Sometimes I woke and there was a big figure in khaki peering down
at me in the candlelight. Sometimes in the early morning I heard the
slamming of the front door and the clatter of nailed boots down the lane.
These were Father’s entrances and exits. Like Santa Claus he came and
went mysteriously. (O’Connor 262)......

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