Improving Argumentation About the Oedipus Complex
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article addresses the Oedipus Complex and its relationship with the development of children and their personality towards the formation of the adult personological structure, through adolescence. Its scientific relevance lies in the possibility of expanding the debate, discussions and arguments about this event that spans human existence in two distinct moments, childhood and adolescence, contributing to the healthy formation of the human Ego and Superego. Its social relevance lies in the fact that it allows the broad public to discuss and study the subject with deference and knowledge. This is a bibliographical research, based on classic authors who dedicated themselves to the study and academic-scientific production of the topic. The Oedipus Complex is a discovery of Psychoanalysis, based on Sigmund Freud's investigations with his neurotic patients and, mainly, through a complex, deep and painful self-analysis. It is structured around Sophocles' tragedy, in which his character, Oedipus, kills his father and marries his mother without knowing it. In search of the truth about himself, he discovers he is a parricide and an incestuous man. Even if it is intended to place all the blame on his shoulders, he acted without knowing that he committed such violations. Sigmund, throughout his scientific life, presented several hypotheses and theories that could, in some way, clarify the occurrence of the Oedipus Complex phenomenon. He believed that man evolved from a specimen that reached adulthood at five years of age and, as the complex occurs around three and a half years of age, this could mean gonadotropic maturation, culminating in the genetic cathexial discharge ring. He continues to argue that in the evolutionary process, man gained survival, with his existence extended ad infinitum, in what can be interpreted by the unconscious, arriving at the current model of psychosexual development.
Author: Souza, Sérgio Rodrigues de
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911717366
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