According to the Oedipus Complex, every boy is fated to struggle with wishes to kill his
A) mother.
B) father.
C) professor.
D) brother.

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According to the Oedipus Complex, every boy develops subconscious sexual desires towards his mother and views his father as a rival for her attention. The boy may become jealous and wish to overcome his father or even eliminate him. However, because of fear and guilt, these feelings are often repressed and resolved through identification with the father. The Oedipus Complex was proposed by Sigmund Freud and is considered a controversial theory in modern psychology.

According to the Oedipus Complex, Every Boy Is Fated to Struggle