1st impulses aka normal behavior for adolescents is neither to think your MOM is hOt and want her nor do daughters crave their fathers and want them.(from what i understand) That is crazy! Now we all know adolescents might want other peoples /friends moms but not their own. (a select few which fit the Oedipal Instincts) I agree with the second paragraph of this article kinda.
Somebody please help me with this I cannot wrap my head around it: Much thanks
"that is, I do not believe that they are capable of creating something absolutely new and peculiar to themselves. It is far more probable -- and this is confirmed by incidental observations of normal children -- that in their amorous or hostile attitude toward their parents, psychoneurotics do no more than reveal to us, by magnification, something that occurs less markedly and intensively in the minds of the majority of children. Antiquity has furnished us with legendary matter which corroborates this belief, and the profound and universal validity of the old legends is explicable only by an equally universal validity of the above-mentioned hypothesis of infantile psychology. I am referring to the legend of King Oedipus and the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles."
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