Electra complex and Oedipus complex... Contd

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This leads to resentment towards her mother, whom the girl believes caused her castration. According to some radical psychologists, the male psyche is the dominant entity in human relations. This may be due to the belief that females have a weaker superego, where morality is developed and values internalised. This judicial component of human personality is developed during the phallic stage. A dominant view of the male psyche may also be rooted in the habits of a social system, such as those descended from patriarchal cultures and family systems. In later life, so the theory goes, the girl will grow into the character type that her mother has developed as a means to attracting a man similar to her father.

Furthermore, if there is a perversion in the development of females or if their aggression is somehow stifled, resentment can in turn be displaced towards the dominant male (the father) or patriarchal cultures in general. Some say this explains lesbianism and feminism (though this is not universally accepted, as it may unsupportedly assume that women loving and/or supporting equality for other women requires an animosity toward men).

The Oedipus Complex is a Freudian term named after a Greek myth in which a man kills his father and unknowingly sleeps with his mother. A leading UK hypnotherapist estimates that 75% of the population need to resolve their complex, and that 50% of all heart attacks are caused by these complexes.

It has been often found that as a child a boy develops an unconscious liking and an attraction grows for his mother while at the same time he thinks and considers his father to be his rival and is afraid of him. None of this usually happens at a conscious level. It results in an unconscious conflict because the boy desires the love of his mother, yet fears the consequences from his father. The unconscious mind at such an age lacks the wisdom to truly understand the situation. Often, the unconscious will find a satisfactory way of dealing with this conflict. However, in many cases, the solution is far from perfect. The consequences are many fold and may include: a boy who becomes an over competitive man (wants really to beat his father), a man who find it hard to combine love and sex, a man who wants his wife to mother him.

Thus in this study it has been proved that the relationship between a mother and her son and the father and her daughter can be extremely complicated and this can cause problems in the relationship between the mother and the father. The jealous child in turn might actually enjoy this consequence, in his conscious and unconscious mind.