Other concepts that are popularly associated with Freud today include that of revealing "Freudian slips” in speech and Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex, in which a child harbors an ...

In his well-known “the Oedipus complex” theory, sons develop an attraction to their moms and rivalry with their dads. Perhaps more relevant here is his theory of “the Jocasta complex ...

and I now consider it a universal event in early childhood… If this is so we can understand the gripping power of [the Greek legend] Oedipus Rex… The dream and Freud's analysis of it gave rise ...