The Oedipus Complex refers to feelings derived from the erotic linkage of the child with the parent of the
opposite sex.
Freud considered that The Oedipus Complex, is a fundamental stage in the
psychosexual development of the child, and, he established that it happened in the children between 2 and 5 years of age; when they experience intense feelings of jealousies, love, hatred, which disappear as soon as the child has identified with the father and has learned to suppress the sexual instincts. The child who remains fixed on this stage of the development libidinal, called phallic, or on any of other stages distinguished by Freud, as oral, anal or latent, can experience problems in the adult life due to the lack of gratification of the needs. Freud indicated that The Oedipus Complex constitutes the nuclear complex of the neurosises , and that the therapeutic mission of the
psychoanalysis consists of elaborating the oedipal fixing (the love to the mother and the hatred towards the father), so that the subject could find socially acceptable substitutes of the mother, and this way to be reconciled by the father. Freud was thinking that the same structure of relationships, but inverted (the love to the father and the hatred towards the mother), it was constituting the Oedipus feminine complex, named also as
Electra's Complex.