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 **Freud: Oedipus Complex 1856-1939**
The Oedipus complex created by Sigmund Freud was a theory that said that children have inner sexual feelings for their parents. This idea caused many people to be confused and changed the dynamic of an average family. The bond between a father and a son could never be the same again. The Oedipus complex was inspired by Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother. This changed how religious people thought too because their idea of a family was a mother, a father, and children, but now the son has an “instinctive competition with the father for the mother’s love and affection.”(McKay et al 812). Freud said that males experience the Oedipus complex and this idea disturbed many families and the atmosphere between families were never the same again.