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Oedipus: Oedipus Complex
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Freud considered the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex to be key to the development of gender roles and identity. He posited that boys and girls resolved the conflicts differently as a result of castration anxiety (for males) and penis envy (for females). Freud ... held that the unsuccessful resolution of the Oedipus complex could result in neurosis, pedophilia, and homosexuality. Most Freud scholars today agree that Freud's views on the Oedipus complex went through a number of stages of development. This is well exemplified in the Simon and Blass (1991) publication, which documents no fewer than six stages of development of Freud's thinking on this subject:
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It is ... possible that Oedipus relations may exist between siblings; cousins of the same and different generations; uncles, aunts and their nieces and nephews et cetera. Although the existence of the complex is more common in 3-6 year old males than anyone else, it is important that other, less common scenarios are acknowledged.
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Picasso recognised the symbolic connection between this event in his early life and the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud. He then adopted Oedipus as a secretive alter ego because the story provided a wealth of symbolic associations that Picasso already identified with in his art.
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