When Bart turns four,he unconsciously begins to find his mother sexually attractive. He has an unconscious desire to kill his father,Homer,so that he does not have to share
His mother.According to Freud,Bart is experiencing the ________ complex.
A) ego
B) latency
C) phallic
D) Oedipus

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According to Freudian theory, the Oedipus complex occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, where a child, in this case a boy like Bart, unconsciously desires his mother and sees his father as a rival, wishing to replace him.

When Bart Turns Four,he Unconsciously Begins to Find His Mother