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Oedipus complex: The Oedipus complex, Freudian theoretic revision & Criticism

In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. A daughter's attitude of desire for her father and hostility toward her mother is referred to as the feminine (or female) Oedipus complex. The…

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Oedipus complex topic overview

The analysis highlights The Oedipus complex, Freudian theoretic revision and Criticism as prominent areas in the source structure around Oedipus complex.

Related topics
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Source areas
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Connected nodes
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Extracted relationships
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Related term clusters
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Bridge connections
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What this topic covers Research coverage

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Criticism · 32 topics
Freudian theoretic revision · 29 topics
Overview · 22 topics
The Oedipus complex · 21 topics
Background · 12 topics

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Overview

Background

The Oedipus complex

Freudian theoretic revision

Criticism

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How Oedipus complex connects Entity context

The extracted context around Oedipus complex shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Oedipus complex → According, Ferenczi, Florence Rush, Freud, Freud's, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Masson, Oedipus, Rush, Rush's, Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud Archives, The Assault, The Freudian Coverup, The Oedipus, Thus, Truth Another extracted example is Oedipus complex → According, Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Carl Jung, Clytemnestra, Electra, For Freud, Freud, Freud's, Greek, Like Oedipus, Oedipus, Orestes, Orthodox Jungian, Sophocles. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Oedipus complex

Top relations

related to Cover for sexual abuse · 17
Oedipus complex → According, Ferenczi, Florence Rush, Freud, Freud's, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Masson, Oedipus, Rush, Rush's, Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud Archives, The Assault, The Freudian Coverup, The Oedipus, Thus, Truth
related to Carl Gustav Jung · 15
Oedipus complex → According, Aegisthus, Agamemnon, Carl Jung, Clytemnestra, Electra, For Freud, Freud, Freud's, Greek, Like Oedipus, Oedipus, Orestes, Orthodox Jungian, Sophocles
related to Jacques Lacan · 14
Oedipus complex → Bollas, Dove, Jacques Lacan, Lacan's, Likewise, Michael Parsons, Moreover, Oedipal, Oedipus, Returns, Ronald Britton, The Dove, Thus, Vanishes
related to Timeline · 14
Oedipus complex → Applies, As Freud, Complete Oedipus, Considers, Electra, Freud, Hysteria, Investigates, Oedipal, Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Proposes, Sophocles, The Aetiology
related to Lack of empirical basis · 11
Oedipus complex → Adolf Grünbaum, Case, Evolutionary, Freud, Freud's, Homicide, Little Hans, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, Oedipus, Studies
related to Feminine Oedipus attitude · 8
Oedipus complex → Carl Jung, Electra, Freud, Furthermore, Oedipus, Psychoanalysis, The Theory, Whereas
related to Melanie Klein · 8
Oedipus complex → British Psychoanalytical Association, Freud, Klein's, Melanie Klein, Oedipal, Oedipus, The Kleinian, Whereas Freud
related to Original formulation · 7
Oedipus complex → Choice, Freud, Freud's, Men, Object Made, Oedipus, Special Type
related to Otto Rank · 7
Oedipus complex → Freud, Freudian, Object, Oedipal, Oedipus, Otto Rank, Rank's
related to Sexism · 5
Oedipus complex → Feminist, Freud's, Irigaray, Luce Irigaray, Oedipus

Important terminology

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Important terminology

oedipus complex freud mother theory father sexual desire freud's psychosexual oedipal psychoanalytic abuse boy development parents same-sex gender electra stage

Oedipus complex relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 127 structured relationships around Oedipus complex. Examples in this analysis include Oedipus complex → is a → son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father and Oedipus complex → is a → irrelevance in the treatment of severe pathology. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Oedipus complexis ason's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father0.90text
Oedipus complexis airrelevance in the treatment of severe pathology0.90text
the Oedipus complex that require the presence of the motherinstance ofThese new family structures pose new questions for the psychoanalytic theories0.80text
the father in the successful development of a child.Evidence suggests children who have been raised by parents of the same sex are not much different from children raised in a traditional family structureinstance ofThese new family structures pose new questions for the psychoanalytic theories0.80text
Chodorowinstance ofMany psychoanalytic thinkers0.80text
Corbett are working towards changing the Oedipus complex to eliminateinstance ofMany psychoanalytic thinkers0.80text
Oedipus complexinstance ofTo examine the application of concepts0.80text
primal scene to male same-sex familiesinstance ofTo examine the application of concepts0.80text
we must first eliminate the automatic associations among sexinstance ofTo examine the application of concepts0.80text
genderinstance ofTo examine the application of concepts0.80text
and the stereotypical psychological functions based on these categoriesinstance ofTo examine the application of concepts0.80text
Oedipus complexrelated to Carl Gustav JungFreud's0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Oedipus complex bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Complex, Oedipus and Theory. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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  • feminist views on the oedipus complex
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Oedipus complex, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Oedipus complex with Criticism. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Oedipus complex — Criticism · splits 89 ⟂ 33
Oedipus complex — Freudian theoretic revision · splits 92 ⟂ 30
Oedipus complex — Overview · splits 99 ⟂ 23
Oedipus complex — The Oedipus complex · splits 100 ⟂ 22
Oedipus complex — Background · splits 109 ⟂ 13

Map overview Semantic statistics

Oedipus complex

Nodes122
Edges121
Triples127
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016393
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Oedipus complex to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as The Oedipus complex, Freudian theoretic revision & Criticism, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Oedipus complex · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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