... women's sexual development. According to Freud, the Oedipus complex occurs in boys between the ages of three and five. A young boy would observe that his parents have a special kind of relationship, and the boy would want to have that same kind of relationship with his mother. The father is in the way of achieving this kind of relationship, which creates mixed feelings about the father these being jealousy, hatred, as well as love. Having these mixed emotions creates fear in the child. He fears that his father will discover his feelings towards his mother, and punish him for having those feelings. In addition, these mixed emotions create feelings of guilt, and the young boy will try to identify with his father by incorporating his values and moral standards. The young boy identifies with his father in the hope that if he has the characteristics of the man his ...

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