Theories Of Sexuality

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Freudian theories are an interconnected web of propositions and concepts that aim to unravel the complex strands of human emotions and neurosis. Like other theories Freud’s can be unknotted and dissected, they have a beginning, middle and end, but most importantly they have a history. Freud, one of the fledgling fathers of psychoanalysis, was able to modify and add to alter the significance of some fragments of the human consciousness, though any particular idea, such as the Oedipus complex, cannot be adequately understood when taken in isolation. One of Freud’s important influences on scientific thought was captured within his three essays on the theory of sexuality; they provide the fundamentals of his theory of neurosis (Clarke, 1987). These …show more content…
According to (Freud, 2012) the male child may also want an incestuous relationship with his father the Oedipus complex offers the child two possibilities one active the passive. Freud’s interpretation of family life may at first hand appear to be warped with sexual displays and incestuous relationships. However, it is worth remembering that the child is an innocent being and has no idea of social protocol, and his idea of sexual intercourse may be a little vague, knowing that it has something to do with the penis. Erickson in Craib, 2001 p 53) discusses this, he argues that shame and guilt is a social construct, and a child only attaches these feelings of shame to pleasurable experiences when subjected to them “our most acute feelings of shame having to do with the direct exposure to the gaze of others, guilt involves internal psychological processes” to a child he merely wants total control over an object and to receive pleasurable stimulation from it. As adults and as a society we know that this is wrong and that we as adults have power over the child, and by law consent needs to be obtained before sexual relationships can be forged, the …show more content…
The story is that King Oedipus has a complex, conscious that an awful curse has befallen Thebes, he directs his brother-in-law, Creon, to seek out guidance of Apollo. Creon advises Oedipus that the curse will be rescinded if the murderer of Laius the former king is found and prosecuted. Laius was murdered at a crossroads many years before. Oedipus devotes himself to the unearthing and the prosecution of Laius’s murderer. Oedipus exposes reluctant citizens to questioning, together with a sightless prophet. Tiresias, the blind prophet, enlightens Oedipus that Oedipus himself killed Laius. Oedipus confides this to his wife Jocasta, she tells him not to have faith in the prophet as they have been wrong in the past and tells him a narrative regarding her and King Laius, they had a son who was predicted to kill Laius and marry her. To ensure that this would not come true, they killed Laius had the child killed, thus ending the prophecy? Jocasta statement does not comfort Oedipus, as a child, an old man told Oedipus that he was adopted, and that one day he would kill his biological father and sleep with his biological mother. Oedipus also recalled that he had once killed a man at a crossroads. Jocasta laments and urges Oedipus not to look into the past any further, but he obstinately disregards her. Oedipus goes on with the interrogation of
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