Is the so-called Oedipus Complex an inborn human trait or does it develope according to one's life situation?
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The Oedipus Complex was a term coined by Freud and is supposedly an innate characteristic.  If you ask me, Freud was a little crazy.  I'm sure it didn't help that his mother was beautiful.
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I think its based on libido and lifestyle...   It can be very important to some and not to others.
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So what does all that have to do with your mom?  Oedipus complex is an erotic desire for one's mother.
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As a summary, here are the ten attributes that best describe this new kind of child, the Indigo Child\n\n    * They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it)\n    * They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that.\n    * Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents "who they are."\n    * They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).\n    * They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.\n    * They get frustrated with systems that are ritually oriented and don't require creative thought.\n    * They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (nonconforming to any system).\n    * They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.\n    * They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").\n    * They are not shy in letting you know what they need.\n\n      and... just in case you heard otherwise from other "indigo" sources, the designated word "Indigo" has nothing to do with the color of an aura! It is the result of scientific observations by a woman who has the brain disorder called synesthesia.
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Personality is a function which involves the building of one’s personal boundary (some would call it an ego boundary).  This seems to happen at the end of one’s life as an infant and seems to be greatly associated with the learning of language.  Geo-, Socio-factors and internal brain chemistry all seem to have a part.  Mental choices of children seem to be involved in developing the individual personality.  The quality of the nurturing of the child (from any source) seems to allows more and better choices.  One must realize that preacher’s children can become prostitutes and serial killers and uneducated idiots can raise geniuses.  Life is a mystery.
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No, Freud's theory on the oedipus complex was based on him studying himself, not others. So it was faulty research started by a myth.   Additionally it has been proven wrong by numerous other psychologists such as Albert Bandura (social leaning theory) B.F. Skinner (behaviorism) and Erikson (psychosocial development).  When trying to figure out why boys mimic their fathers, read Bandura (its not because they love their mothers)
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Yes.\n\nBoth colour blindness and hemophilia are X-linked, and recessive. This means that if you are male, you will have the trait (because you only have 1 X chromosome), but if you are female, you have to have the disease on both your X chromosomes.\n\nThe 'normal healthy woman' had to get a hemophilia-X from her father (since he only has 1 X) - call it X(h) - and he was *not* colourblind so the X(h) doesn't carry the colourblindness mutation.\n\nShe also *had* to get a colour-blind-X from her mother, since her mother has to have 2 copies in order to *be* colourblind - call it X(b). So, she is X(h) X(b).\n\nShe marries a colourblind but not hemophiliac man: he must be X(b)Y. No other option.\n\nThere are thus four different possible outcomes for their children:\n\nX(b) X(h) mates with X(b)Y:\n\nX(b) X(b) - colour blind daughter\nX(b) Y - colour blind son\nX(h) X(b) - normal daughter (but carries both recessive traits)\nX(h) Y - hemophiliac son\n\nHope that was clear enough! :)
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If you let it be, then it is. If you have a slightly obsessive personality where you can't stop thinking about that person or you'll drop everything and hang out with that person though you shouldn't, then yah, it'll be a distraction.\n\nScientifically speaking, some studies have shown that your IQ does drop when you're "in love," if you want to read more about that.
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Yes.\n\nAs a matter of fact, there is a condition where people are born with the inability to learn words or symbology. However, their concepts are intact. For example, such a person will never, ever, no matter how many times you tell them, associate the word "scissors" with the things that cut, but if they want to cut a piece of paper, they will go straight to the drawer, get out the scissors, and use them to cut the paper. They have full understanding of what scissors are, but merely lack the ability to attach a word to it.\n\nOf course, such a person wouldn't be using a dictionary. But, you can conceptualize a person who has normal language abilities, but whose family always said, "if you don't know a word, look it up in that big blue book under the coffee table," and just never heard the word "dictionary." Or they may have always called it a "lexicon." \n\nHave you ever looked up the word "lexicon?" How about synonyms for "thesaurus?"
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If this premise was true, then is this the difference between the DNA of humans and the DNA of an Oak tree?\n\nScience has always done poorly in explaining the source of human emotions.  Is there a genetic difference between Love and Lust?  Either might provoke "successful replication" of the DNA, so why two different emotions, not just one?\n\nThe pure emotion of "fear" might provoke "flight ot fight" and have some survival value, but how does "paranoia" help the individual or the species to survive?\n\nThe mechanism of linking emotions to memories may have a chemical or neurological basis, but no genes have even been found to express this.\n\nPerhaps some areas of study are best left out of the realm of science.  The subjective Universe cannot be verified easily by an objective observer.
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Well this is certainly a sophisticated question! First you have to define *deviance* THe phenomenom of deviant behavior or differences is constant. Norms change all the time! What was once thought of as deviant ten years ago is more accepted now. It is actually relative to the norm! The problems inherent? Well since it is relative...I guess it challenges the status quo. Yes of course there are criminal deviants, sexual deviants, perhaps even nature has deviants although we would probably call them mutations. The psychological mind is a wonderful and complex thing, and I think it just all comes down to expressionism and passion. Some people have a natural strong desire or a cultivated one. If deviants were not labeled that way (you might as well say freak!) then perhaps we could open our minds and ask them, what they are thinking, what is their deep psycholocal needs within? compulsive behavior, or obsessive compulsive behavior could be the root of it. Well that is all I can say on this topic for now!
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yes. of  course, it is called animalistic human behavioral characteristical syndome.
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I think you may be interested in reading an  article by a biopsychologist named Lawrence Harper. The article proposes a theory that suggests that experiences can be inherited through genetic means. The theory does not specifically address the notion of the inheritance of particular memories, but it may prove a useful avenue for pursuing your question.\n\nHere is the abstract from the article:\n\nCurrently, behavioral development is thought to result from the interplay among genetic inheritance, congenital characteristics, cultural contexts, and parental practices as they directly impact the individual. Evolutionary ecology points to another contributor,epigenetic inheritance, the transmission to offspring of parental phenotypic responses to environmental challenges—even when the young do not experience the challenges themselves. Genetic inheritance is not altered, gene expression is. Organismic pathways for such transmission\nexist. Maternal stress during the latter half of a daughter’s gestation may affect not only the daughter’s but also grand-offspring’s physical growth. The author argues that temperamental variation may be influenced in the same way. Implications for theory and research design are presented along with testable predictions.
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You will find it all, at :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_the_King\nThere are also further links to allied topics, at the end of the wikipedia article.
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No.  Changes in form within one individual's lifetime are called metamorphosis.
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Premorbid personality is most often associated with Parkinson's disease, due to the search for these elements - but doesnt always need to occur that way. Among the professionals it is considered a psychosocial factor. Basically it isnt really a personality ... but is looking at the change in personality before the disease (premorbid) compared to after the disease has progressed. There is hope that by identifying early signs of the disease - such as in this case personality changes - that the diseases can better be caught and controlled early. \n\nIn the case of the use of the word as a diagnosis, this definition probably best applies: "By definition the behaviours associated with personality disorder are evident in early life and persist into adulthood. Their develop-ment against the background of an unre-markable Premorbid personality may well point to either functional or organic illness. "\n\nAgain - the study of behavioral patters before and after onset of an illness.
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I belong to a DID board, and although I am not DID myself....I have a lot of experience with people who are.\n\n   DID is almost always a result of severe childhood abuse, and the condition itself first develops when a person is very young, and experienceing things that are simply too traumatic to stay in consiousness. So it's not like people "get" DID in later life: the general consensis is that they have had it ever since the abuse first happened.\n\n   Other personalities are created to come out and be there for the experiences, and then "hold" the memories behind a wall of amniesia.\n\n   Personalities can be formed at each traumaic experience, thus serving to create sometimes hundreds of different personalities, or personalities can be created who are "thematic" and come out to deal with any experience that is  related to their particular "job", thus resulting in fewer personalites overall.\n\n    Personalities are generally frozen at the age they were created, and since most of the trauma was during childhood, often a large percentage of a persons personalites are "littles" from ages 3 on up.   And yet, if things happen later in life, if the thing that happens is related to the "job" of a little......it will often still be that personality that comes out to deal with it, even if they are much younger in age than the "host" happens to be.\n\n  One other odd thing about DID is that.....people can be in their mid 20's and on into their 50's and still have **no clue** that they have DID.  As far as they are concerned, everyone has big chunks of time that they have no memory of.\n\n   When people are diagnosed with DID, it is almost the rule that they will be going...."Like h*ll I have Multipal Personalites".  Believe me, you yourself could have it and not know.  So you can see why you might think your therapist was the one who was nuts for daring to suggest such a thing.  Even when the evedence is right before their eyes, people will **still** deny that it could be possible.\n\n  The first goal in treatment is for the "host" to begin to make contact with their "others."  But often, in their urge to deny things, they will actively resist making any effort to do so.  By that time, their alters are ususally starting to really loose patience with the host.  They **want** to be heard.  The result of such resistance will often be severe headaches, "hearing voices" or "chatter" and nightmares.\n\n  In the end, the function of DID is protection.  Allmost all personalities have acted in ways to protect the host from memories they fear would overwhelm the host.  So as most people travel down the path toward getting better, they  generally come to love and appreciate their alters for all the things they have done for them over the years.  Or at least come to understand their origional motivation, in the case of personalities who may have done things to get them in trouble\n\n   Are alters "real personalities" ?   By definition ( as noted in the DSM) they are.  The more time they spend "out" the more they accumulate life experiences of their own, and develop a level of complexity that does indeed charactorize a "personality".\n\n   Treatment for DID can be quite long.  Generally, the thought is that each personality needs to resolve his own set of issues, and when there are a large number of personalities.....you can see where it might take quite a while. Most treatment is the sort of treatment that people with PTSD have to go through.  People and their personalites usually *all* have "trama issues" of one form or another that they each must deal with.\n\n  Among people with DID there is quite a debate about what the final goal of treatment might be.  Some people are not at all interested in "integrating" because of the respect they have developed for their