Bed One Parent, Kill the Other: Oedipus, Electra Complexes
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2022-10-17

The Oedipal and Electra complexes have two etiologies. Freud and Jung have identified only one of them: competition with the same sex parent for the love and attention of the other-sexed one.

But there is an even more compelling source.

Until age 18-24 months, the infant is both genderless and pansexual and consequently autoerotic. His libido is turned towards itself as a love object.

But the infant is merged and fused with the mother throughout this period (symbiosis). They are one and the same. His narcissistic libido cathexes her as well!

When he begins to separate from the mother, his narcissistic libido still remains invested in her residually - and this is the Oedipal complex.

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