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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by hard to spell baby [Man walking down street with an apple]

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names okay here's our question according to Freud's psychosexual stages in the

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phallic stage a little boy begins to resent his father and compete with him

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for the attentions of his mother this complex is referred to as what and here

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are the potential answers... well let's just jump right in with answer A - A is referring

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to Freud's Electra complex which he named after Electra in Greek mythology [Electra appears beside Jennifer Garner]

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not after Jennifer Garner's character in that one movie according to Freud the

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Electra complex is when a daughter would battle with her mother for possession of [Daughter and mother fighting for attention from Father]

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her father and we thought we had family drama since the electra complex is a

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psychosexual stage that relates to a young girl, not a young boy as the question

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describes we can cross out A - now let's take a look at the next potential answer

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B if we remember our site class Eros is part of the id and what Freud called [Teacher pointing to board]

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the life instinct in other words Eros is that thing that helped our ancestors run

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away from a charging bear or put more modernly makes us run away from [Man runs away from computer]

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something as bad as horribly slow internet the opposite of Eros the death

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instinct is what Freud dubbed Thanatos which also happens to be answer C since

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both of these are parts of the id and not the psychosexual stage described, we can

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eliminate both B and C and since we know the id is part of the mind and not a [Id inside the brain]

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type of complex we can get rid of E - So that leaves us with D - Oedipus which is just

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the complex we're looking for, for this question we mean...not in life

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Who is Oedipus well in Greek mythology he was a

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tragic figure who unknowingly married his mother and since boys in this [Oedipus with his Mother]

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psychosexual stage starts to compete with their fathers for their mother's

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attention Freud thought it was fitting to name it the Oedipus complex poor

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Oedipus stuck with accidentally marrying his mom and also probably having a spell

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out his name wherever he went both heavy burdens one slightly heavier

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than the other [Oedipus crying in the street]

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