The Laius complex is the father's complex of fear of the son as a potential rival in his own prerogatives. I t is considered more fundamental than the Freudian Oedipus complex which describes the son's rivalry with his father, founded on the son's sexual desire for his mother. Laius is the father of Oedipus. Graber3 holds that the original guilt rests with Laius (12, p. 17f.). Since Laius wante...

Auditory feedback is critical for the development and maintenance of speech in humans. In contrast, studies of nonhuman primate vocal production generally report that subjects show little reliance on auditory input. We examined the extent to which cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) vocal production is sensitive to perturbation of auditory feedback by manipulating the predictability of presen...

Representations of Sigmund Freud in early 21st century US American novels rely on and respond to the image of Freud that emerged from investigations by Paul Roazen ("Brother Animal," 1969) and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ("The Assault on Truth," 1984), which cast doubt on the validity of the Oedipus complex. Relying on Roazen, Brenda Webster's "Vienna Triangle" (2009) links Freud's oedipal thinki...

Women are often critical of their mothers and identify with their most negative characteristics. Simultaneously, it has also been noted that strong bonds are often established between mothers and daughters. When traditional Oedipal theory is applied to women, it does not take into account sufficiently either the prevalence of daughters’ critical perceptions of their mothers or the strong connec...

Although animals of many species have been shown to discriminate between visual-spatial arrays or auditory-temporal sequences based on numerosity, most of the evidence for numerosity discrimination derives from experiments involving extensive laboratory training. Under these conditions, animals' discrimination of two numerosities depends on their ratio and is independent of their absolute value...

The theme of Oedipus the King is conflict between Oedipus’ desire to know himself and his opposing conceal truth that will bring disaster. It’s complex character over self-knowledge makes tragedy a rich source inspiration for psychoanalytic concept formation provides deeper understanding emotional cognitive development.

This study aims to know The Bookseller’s Notebooks intersects with Hunchback of Notre Dame and Oedipus Rex. We analyze the novelist’s proficiency at expressing contemporary human issues innovatively artistically, focusing on emotional struggle between parents children. In particular, sheds light social struggles suffered by a marginalized, despised, rejected societal group, namely illegitimate ...

asserts that "plain common sense?the acquisition of knowledge of the conduct and experience of human beings which comes from a wide experience of life" is a useful asset to the psychologist. He has a poor opinion of the Oedipus Complex, listing it in the Index, as "Oedipus Complex (supposed)." He believes in the individuality of each child, and even suggests that some can benefit from corporal ...

This study compared adults (Homo sapiens), young children (Homo sapiens), and adult tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) while they discriminated global and local properties of stimuli. Subjects were trained to discriminate a circle made of circle elements from a square made of square elements and were tested with circles made of squares and squares made of circles. Adult humans showed a global bias in ...