The Oedipus complex appears to be two or three years old when the boy begins to realize more clearly his love for the mother. From the beginning, the family triangle - father, mother, child - is already present. First of all, between the mother and the child there is a play of tenderness and dedication that misleads the child, it begins to think that it is what fully satisfies the mother. She is in love with her, she wants to own it, it is only for him. But very quickly, he notices that there is interference in the game between the two of us who is embarrassed.

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There is something that the mother is interested in, beyond him. This thing stems from the mother's sexual aspirations - it is the phallus, and the father is not without that object. Initially, the child was identified with the phallus that thinks the mother also possesses. Right at the moment he realizes that his mother is deprived of it, the situation changes. It is then in the game that the father comes in, the one who is not without it and to whom the mother's desire is directed. This movement is positive because it helps the child to get rid of her full swallowing of her mother's space. If the father is the one who owns the phallus, then the child will have to accept that the mother belongs to the father, not to him. He feels rival to his father and wishes unconsciously, of course, to remove him, to move him beyond the mother. But at the same time, like any feeling, and it's ambivalent. He also experiences affection and affection for his father and wants to imitate him, to become as big and powerful as he is. Thus, it stands in a passive position with respect to it, which derives from the bisexuality of the human psyche and which will be a source of future neurotic complexes. It not only loves her mother but also hostility to her, she threatens to swallow it, not to allow it to develop completely - remember what we said last time about the symbiosis with the mother. The Oedipus complex disappears with the castration complex. The boy encounters in the father's figure an obstacle to the realization of his unconscious desires. It is detached from the mother and more and more identifiable, identifying with the father, which will later allow him to choose other love objects besides the mother.

The castration complex is the unconscious sense of threat, the fear the child experiences in detecting the anatomical gender difference. The boy can not imagine what the woman really is, how she looks, how she is. It can not imagine the existence of a person without this essential organ - the penis. Seeing the anatomy of the little girls, which is not subject to such a taboo as the anatomy of the great girl, the sexually mature woman, the boy makes an effort, it raises his own perception and predicts the growth of the missing penis. But anyway, after the Oedipus and the threat of castration, the issue of gender difference is solved precisely because of the lack of a mental image of the female sexual organ through "having" and "not having" through the possession and absence of the phallus for the penis - the real male sexual organ, but for his mental image - which is expressed by the Greek word for the member - phallus). Real or otherwise, the phallus remains in the captivity of the phantasm for possession and absence, and after the recognition of reality, after the initial shock and the consequent negation. The problem with the phallus is therefore inherently related to frustration, the fear of its loss, its deprivation (this fear will then be revealed constantly in relation to other objects in terms of money, service, social reputation, etc.) . The phallus gives a symbolic notion of extinction, of deprivation, it is an imaginary object inherently inherent in every psyche, male or female.

The case of Little Hans, told by Freud in Pivotal Analysis of a 5-year-old boy (Child's Soul), gives a completely credible illustration of the course of the Oedipus and Castration Complex in the boy. Hans is the son of Freud's close friend. His parents have accepted Freud's ideas for psychoanalysis and the child is educated as they seem to fit them according to psychoanalysis. This is mostly a "supervised" child, as Freud himself has told his friends to find in his development any confirmation of his theory of childhood sexuality. Little Hans's treatment will not bring anything new to the theoretical level.

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