He has an Oedipus complex that is not so apparent on the outside.
It is in many ways parallel to the Oedipus complex: a boy's sexual love for his mother.
The conflict aspect of the Oedipus complex arises from within the child.
In early childhood, prior to the Oedipus complex, an individual forms an important identification with the father.
He is the man who theorized the unconscious and the Oedipus complex.
"There is no such thing as an Oedipus complex for African people," he says.
Freud obviously took up this concept in his Oedipus complex amongst others.
Freud believed, however, that the Oedipus complex could never fully be resolved.
This is an analysis of the Oedipus complex,' he said. '
A small boy's phobia of horses seemed unlikely evidence for the Oedipus complex.