It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure in the history of psychology, and perhaps ...

Sigmund Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex suggests that children experience a subconscious attraction to the opposite-sex parent and competition with the same-sex parent during early childhood.

Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure in the history of psychology, and perhaps none of his ideas is more contentious than his theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud believed that humans are sexual ...