When Jeremy was six years old, he identified with his father in order to resolve the anxiety he felt for his earlier attraction to his mother. This explanation of Jeremy's gender development is consistent with the _________ theory of gender.

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This explanation aligns with the psychoanalytic theory of gender, specifically Freud's Oedipus complex, where a child identifies with the same-sex parent to resolve sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent.

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