AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Oedipus complex is a characteristic constellation of loving and hostile wishes that children experience towards their parents at the height of the phallic phase. In its positive form, the rival is the parent of the same sex and the child desires a sexual relationship with the parent of the opposite sex.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Jocasta complex is similar to the Oedipus complex, in which a child has sexual desire towards their parent(s). The term is a bit of an extrapolation, since in the original story Oedipus and Jocasta were unaware that they were mother and son when they married.

Detailed explanation-3: -In psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex refers to the child’s desire for sexual involvement with the opposite sex parent, particularly a boy’s attention to his mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the young boy, the Oedipus complex or more correctly, conflict, arises because the boy develops unconscious sexual (pleasurable) desires for his mother. Envy and Jealous are aimed at the father, the object of the mother’s affection and attention.