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single15-May-2008opinionPsychologo Gold Star Survey CreatorThis user is on the site NOW (3 minutes and 25 seconds ago)unsorted39456.4%

  Do you think that Sigmund Freud was right about the Oedipus/Electra complex

The Oedipus complex is the theory that little boys want to kill their father and marry their mother.
The Electra complex is the theory that little girls want to kill their mother and marry their father.

VotesAnswer
2Yes
19No
2He's a sicko
8I have something else to say.

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Melf Survey Central SubscriberGold Star Survey CreatorGold QualifierThis user is on the site NOW (1 minute and 40 seconds ago)
posted 15-May-2008 4:22pm  

As I said in qual, he didn't call the Electra complex such. I don't agree with him. If you don't know it's Freud, it just sounds like trendy psychological Darwinismus.
LJD Gold Qualifier
posted 15-May-2008 5:37pm  

Sick, Freud was sick....
LindaH Gold Star Survey Creator
posted 15-May-2008 6:28pm  

No. I think Freud had a few decent theories, but for the most part, he was a quack.
Galomorro Double Gold Star Survey CreatorGold Qualifier
posted 15-May-2008 7:14pm  

No -- I consider all that to be a bunch of doo-doo.
Biggles Gold Qualifier
posted 15-May-2008 7:18pm  

I think Freud was wrong about a lot of things...
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 15-May-2008 9:03pm  

No, he was a COMPLETE quack, and one of the biggest douchebags in science of all time on top of that. Come to think of it, people that later borrowed from him were pretty useless as well (this includes Eric Ericson, Karl Jung, Adler, and to a much smaller extent Maslov). Popular culture would have you believe(*) that these people are all guninues, but pretty much everyone in the field, save for a few old fart professors who universities can't get rid of because they have tenture(* *), knows that they're irrelvant. Modern day psychology shys away from all of them.


(*) Remember what George Carlin said: "think how dumb the average person is. Half the people are dumber than that." Yup, thats YOU allright. Off course just because the Sopranoes say something doesn't mean its true. Only complete morons, which apparantly inlcudes most people, buy into his theories because they don't know any better.

(* *) Just because someone has a college degree does not automatically follow that they're intelligent. Not by a long shot.
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 15-May-2008 9:04pm  

Hym, looks I am wrong. People seem to agree that he doesn't know what he's talking about. I didn't expect 9 NO votes.
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 15-May-2008 9:06pm  

Wow, you're actually right on something. Welcome to the world of common sense.
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to Biggles) posted 15-May-2008 9:07pm  

Well, that's sure an understatement.
Frostbrand Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 15-May-2008 9:15pm  

Well, no, in so far as oeidpus didn't actually WANT to kill his father and marry his mother, that just happened through a series of tragic and ironic events. (Yes, I've read the play).
Enheduanna Survey Central Subscriber
posted 15-May-2008 9:18pm  

No. I think he was onto something when he noticed that dynamics between parents and children differ by gender, but I think his theory is mostly a load of crap.
Psychologo Gold Star Survey CreatorThis user is on the site NOW (3 minutes and 25 seconds ago)
(reply to Frostbrand) posted 16-May-2008 1:22am  

Your rigth, the real Oedipus did not want to, and if the psychic had keept his mouth shut about the vision non of it would have happen, (yes i read the play) .
Iseult Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 16-May-2008 2:18am  

No.
CarlHalling
posted 16-May-2008 7:28am  

No. I don't believe there's any truth in this theory whatsoever, which is not to minimize Freud's brilliance. However, I do believe that excessively strong attachments to one or other parent can and do exist, needless to say in fact.
romkey Survey Central Gold SubscriberBronze Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 16-May-2008 8:31am  

I think that people are very varied, and that this is an accurate description of only a very few of them
Jody
posted 16-May-2008 9:28am  

I don't think the killing part is true, but I do notice that people often seek the same qualities in a mate that they appreciated in their opposite-gender parent.
llamamama Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 17-May-2008 1:09am  

I really have no desire to marry my father..nor do I have any desire to get blood under my nails.
But what do I know, right? Maybe I do have some deep desire to marry my father.
Ok seriously, I just threw up a little. Incest makes me queasy..
Psychologo Gold Star Survey CreatorThis user is on the site NOW (3 minutes and 25 seconds ago)
(reply to llamamama) posted 17-May-2008 12:54pm  

The theory is talking about 2 year old, when the most important person of the other sex in a childs life is the parent, so I dought it applys to you.
llamamama Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to Psychologo) posted 17-May-2008 3:32pm  

Oh, I know. I was kidding.
Psychologo Gold Star Survey CreatorThis user is on the site NOW (3 minutes and 25 seconds ago)
(reply to llamamama) posted 18-May-2008 4:50am  

Sorry, I should have known
LJD Gold Qualifier
(reply to southernyankee) posted 18-May-2008 7:55am  

*smile* I know I have common sense, and I'm right on many things Southern Yankee, I've been around a lot longer than you, have many more life experiences....*smile*
llamamama Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to Psychologo) posted 18-May-2008 12:06pm  

Oh no, it's all good.
southernyankee Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 18-May-2008 10:19pm  

"I know I have common sense,"

Well, thats certainly debatable.


"I've been around a lot longer than you, have many more life experiences...."

I don't get hows that revelant. Old age doesn't automatically mean smarter. Don't forget. All the old hippies still around are mostly your age. May want to rethink your "older = wiser" position. Also, if I am not mistanken, isn't John Mccain older than you. You're certainly no fan of his.
LJD Gold Qualifier
(reply to southernyankee) posted 18-May-2008 11:16pm  

Not so SouthernYankee, the old hippies are about 20 to 25 years younger than I am. I am going on 69 years old.

Frostbrand Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 18-May-2008 11:53pm  

> Not so SouthernYankee, the old hippies are about
> 20 to 25 years younger than I am. I am going
> on 69 years old.
>

My grandmother is in her late 60s as well, and she's even more liberal than I am on many issues, and that's saying something. Considering your "thoguhts" on liberals, doesn't that poke a hole in your argument?
LindaH Gold Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 19-May-2008 12:50am  

The old hippies are in their 60s now. Someone college aged (in their 20s) in the late 1960s would be in their late 50s and early 60s now. Not much younger than you.
LJD Gold Qualifier
(reply to Frostbrand) posted 19-May-2008 1:43am  

Frostbrand, no, it doesn't. What level of education was your grandmother?
LJD Gold Qualifier
(reply to LindaH) posted 19-May-2008 1:58am  

Let's say, they're younger than me. To me, they were a misguided bunch.
Frostbrand Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 19-May-2008 2:21am  

She graduated high school, but never went to college.
LJD Gold Qualifier
(reply to Frostbrand) posted 19-May-2008 2:23am  

Thank you Frostbrand.
Frostbrand Bronze Star Survey Creator
(reply to LJD) posted 19-May-2008 2:25am  

For answering the question? Um sure. It's not like it's a rare thing for me, so I don't see why this one deserved any particular thanks.
Kristal_Rose Survey Central Gold Subscriber
posted 19-May-2008 4:35am  

For some perhaps, but I have to vote 'sicko'. It surely never interested me. On the other hand I can admit to having had some interest in the other genealogical direction, but fortunately heartfelt reality prevailed over fabricated fantasy.

Wait, I take some of that back. I never had any interest in the Oedipus thing from my masculine side, but I have had some Electra fantasies on my feminine side. That may have been different if I actually knew my father. He died in Vietnam, sort of.
RGirl Bronze Star Survey Creator
posted 19-May-2008 8:47pm  

Freud was a perv. No really, read about him and his daughter and tell me about complexes.
cloudhugger Survey Central SubscriberGold Star Survey CreatorSurvey Qualifier
posted 3-Jun-2008 2:45pm  

What about the kid that chops up the parent and stuffs them in the freezer?



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