Ödipuskomplex
For Freud, a near-universal childhood stage: the child desires the mother, resents the father, and secretly wishes him gone; the wish is quickly repressed.
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Nearly every child goes through an Oedipal phase: love shifts from breast to mother, the father becomes a rival, and a flickering wish for his death is quickly buried.
Put simply Freud: nearly every child goes through an "Oedipal" phase. The child's love moves from the breast to the mother, the father becomes a rival, and a fleeting wish for his death is quickly pushed out of mind.
Shore recalls Arendt remarking that had Freud not spent his days among German-speaking Habsburg Jews in Vienna reading Goethe and Shakespeare, the Oedipus complex might never have reached the rest of us.
For Freud, belief in God is infantile: once the growing child sees his father is neither immortal nor all-powerful, he transfers his longing for an omnipotent protector onto a deity.
2 links between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
FreudNearly every child goes through an Oedipal phase: love shifts from breast to mother, the father becomes a rival, and a flickering wish for his death is quickly buried. L9 · 28:42
FreudFor Freud, belief in God is infantile: once the growing child sees his father is neither immortal nor all-powerful, he transfers his longing for an omnipotent protector onto a deity. L9 · 40:14
God-belief arises from the father-relation: the wish for an all-powerful father, transferred after disillusionment.
FreudNearly every child goes through an Oedipal phase: love shifts from breast to mother, the father becomes a rival, and a flickering wish for his death is quickly buried. L9 · 28:42
ArendtShore recalls Arendt remarking that had Freud not spent his days among German-speaking Habsburg Jews in Vienna reading Goethe and Shakespeare, the Oedipus complex might never have reached the rest of us. L9 · 35:54
Argues the supposed universality of the Oedipus complex is a product of Freud's particular cultural milieu.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.