Sérgio
Rodrigues de Souza
Psychoanalyst. Post-Ph.D. in Psychology. E-mail:
srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This article addresses
the Oedipus Complex and its relationship with the development of children and
their personality towards the formation of the adult personological structure,
through adolescence. Its scientific relevance lies in the possibility of
expanding the debate, discussions and arguments about this event that spans
human existence in two distinct moments, childhood and adolescence, contributing
to the healthy formation of the human Ego and Superego. Its social relevance
lies in the fact that it allows the broad public to discuss and study the
subject with deference and knowledge. This is a bibliographical research, based
on classic authors who dedicated themselves to the study and
academic-scientific production of the topic. The Oedipus Complex is a discovery
of Psychoanalysis, based on Sigmund Freud's investigations with his neurotic
patients and, mainly, through a complex, deep and painful self-analysis. It is
structured around Sophocles' tragedy, in which his character, Oedipus, kills
his father and marries his mother without knowing it. In search of the truth
about himself, he discovers he is a parricide and an incestuous man. Even if it
is intended to place all the blame on his shoulders, he acted without knowing
that he committed such violations. Sigmund, throughout his scientific life,
presented several hypotheses and theories that could, in some way, clarify the
occurrence of the Oedipus Complex phenomenon. He believed that man evolved from
a specimen that reached adulthood at five years of age and, as the complex
occurs around three and a half years of age, this could mean gonadotropic
maturation, culminating in the genetic cathexial discharge ring. He continues
to argue that in the evolutionary process, man gained survival, with his
existence extended ad infinitum, in what can be interpreted by the unconscious,
arriving at the current model of psychosexual development.
Keywords: Oedipus Complex. Sigmund Freud. Ego Development. Greek tragedy.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
setembro 15, 2024
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