Chapter 6 Critique of the Oedipus Complex

Freud analyzed the ancient Oedipus myth, and discovered the Oedipus complex from it, and the discussion of this complex is an indispensable part of his entire theory.According to Freud's theory, the Oedipus complex has a major decisive role in the formation of personality. In order to fully understand the truth discovered by Freud, and on this basis to clarify the limitations of Freud on this subject, it is necessary for us to further investigate Freud's theory. Freud believed that the personality structure has three components: "id" (id), "ego" (ego), "superego" (superego).These three are formed in the relationship of sexual power development under the mechanism of conscious and unconscious activities.

(1) "Self": It is a primitive source of power and an inherited instinct. The "Id" requires to meet the basic biological requirements, without any cover and restraint, and seeks direct physical pleasure.If this kind of demand is delayed, you will feel annoyed and annoyed. The result is not that this driving force disappears or weakens, but the demand that you try to satisfy is more urgent.Therefore, under the motivation of the "self", all difficulties, pains and setbacks must be overcome without hesitation. If the power instigated by the "id" is suppressed, it will change direction and shift places.

The "id" is the oldest in the history of ontogeny.The newborn is driven by purely biological impulses - hunger, thirst, need for warmth, need for sleep, etc. - that drive his activities. The "Id" is these biological impulses.The activities of newborns have little social influence at all, since it takes at least two months for social perception to become apparent.Freud believes that creatures need to continue to exist throughout a person's life, so "id" is an eternal part of personality, and "id" plays the most important role in a person's spiritual life throughout his life.

(2) "Ego": "Ego" is the surface layer of the personality structure, but it is only a partial consciousness.If people are in a society controlled by the "self", the danger and fear are unimaginable, because the "self" is not subject to any control.Fortunately, the "id" is checked by the "ego" in the personality. The "ego" is the opposite of the "id", which develops from the "id" in the process of contact with the environment. Babies initially have only the "Id" part, but babies will soon respond to various aspects of the environment, including social aspects.As the infant grows, the influence of the biological impulses is altered in various ways.According to Freud, in order to satisfy the requirements of the "id", the baby gradually understands that certain ways and places can be satisfied faster and more effectively than other ways and places.The result is that infants either develop activities or inhibit activities based on lessons learned from the consequences of the activities.At this time the baby's behavior becomes less blind than at the beginning of life.Freud said: Under the influence of the real outside world that surrounds us, a part of the "id" has obtained a special development, producing a special organization that acts as an intermediary between the "id" and the outside world, the core of our spiritual life. This part can be named "self".

"Ego" is the regulator of the relationship between "id" and the outside world. The "self" needs to adjust the outside world and the "self", while making the "self" adapt to the requirements of the outside world, and at the same time using muscle activities to make the world satisfy the desires of the "self". The function of the "self" to the outside world is to perceive external stimuli, digest and store experiences.If the external stimulus is too strong, the "self" will avoid it, and if it is suitable, it will be done. The function of the "ego" to the "id" is to direct it, to determine whether its various demands are allowed to be satisfied.This adjustment is carried out according to the principle of pleasure and unhappiness and the principle of reality. If the requirements of the "id" are satisfied, it will produce pleasure, if it cannot be satisfied, it will produce displeasure, and if it encounters a situation that may increase displeasure, it will produce anxiety.

(3) "Superego": In the interaction with the environment, children finally not only develop the "self", but also know what is right and what is wrong, and can distinguish between right and wrong.This is the "superego" in personality, which is similar to the so-called conscience of ordinary people.Freud added "superego" to personality because during psychoanalysis, he found that many patients expressed guilt for violating their conscience and had a strong sense of guilt.It can be seen that the "superego" has many rules and regulations, forcing the "self" to abide by them.And these rules and regulations come from the heart, from the internal conflicts of the "self" and "self", rather than driven by the emergency rules of the external environment.

From the perspective of racial development, the "superego" originated from primitive people.Due to contact with the environment, animals can develop their "ego" to some extent, but the "superego" is unique to human beings. Although the prototype of the "superego" is transmitted to the individual from heredity, it is mainly based on sexual impulses frustrated in childhood.So it is the result of prolonged infancy and delayed libido. The "superego" relies on the influence of parents to a large extent.As Freud said: "During this long period of childhood, people who are growing up rely on their parents to live, leaving a sediment. This sediment constitutes a special organ in the 'self' that makes the parents' The influence can last for a long time.” In the contact with parents, children (especially in childhood) make their parents’ personalities and ancestors’ social morality their own through the mechanism of introjection or introjection.It is this aspect of the personality—the "superego"—that expresses a person's character traits and enables them to act in accordance with their values ​​and ideals. Once the "superego" is formed, the "ego" has the responsibility to satisfy the instinctive impulse, the "superego" and the reality at the same time.

In order to meet the requirements of the "Id", the "ego" not only needs to consider whether the external environment allows it, but also considers whether the "superego" approves it.In this way, all psychological activities of a person can be clarified from the personality dynamic relationship among the "id", "ego" and "superego".In addition, the source of human personality characteristics cannot be separated from sexual power.In modern times, some people summarized and analyzed the relationship between personality traits and sexual power of orthodox psychoanalysis based on previous studies, and pointed out that people have been revising and discussing this for half a century, and it will continue in the future. (The above summary of Freud's personality structure theory is quoted from "Personality Psychology", edited by Chen Zhonggeng and Zhang Yuxin, Liaoning People's Publishing House, 1987 edition)

This is Freud's theory of personality structure. He believes that the three parts of "id", "ego" and "superego" are all active and operating at the same time. A person can live a smooth and effective life by relying on these three parts. Power maintains balance.Once there is an imbalance, the result is psychosis. When we face various cases of psychological phenomena or face our own psychological experience, we can all find that Freud's three-in-one personality structure model of "id", "ego" and "superego" has a considerable truth.

This is not an abstract logical deduction, but a vivid and concrete psychological fact.As long as we can go beyond the almost old and numb concepts that have been spoken for many years, and directly enter the ever-changing and vivid psychological world through language and writing, we will not only be able to rediscover the discoveries made by Freud, but may also have new supplements. . We will first find that the "Id" does exist. Of course, it does not exist in this simple vocabulary, but is expressed in the various biological instinctive impulses of each person.Hunger, thirst, warmth requirements, and sexual requirements are all real and true. The fact is that this is everyone's innate instinct.After a little inspection with introspection, we know that these instinctive needs and impulses always exist as an essential part of life.When it is satisfied, it is silent and quiet.When there is a slight dissatisfaction, there will be a faint commotion inside the body and mind.If extremely repressed, it fluctuates violently until the intellect becomes fully aware and satisfies it.As long as people are alive, these living instincts and impulses exist, and we just call it the "Id" in general.

Then we also discovered that the "self" also exists. When we see the world and ourselves through "my eyes", when we face the world as a conscious individual, when we carefully explore and experience our awareness of "self", we can be both precise and very vague. Be aware of the existence of that "self".This is still difficult to simply represent with a single word, just use the word "self" indiscriminately. All our thoughts and behaviors are directed and implemented by this "self". We use the eyes of the "self" to see the world, use the ears of the "self" to listen to the world, use the thoughts of the "self" to think about the world, and use the "self" to think about the world. Treat the world with the attitude of "self", and feel the world with all the senses of "self". "Self" exists not only in our eyes, but also in our brains, and in the sense of our body.This "self" is probably an inexhaustible concept in human philosophy and psychology. Moreover, we can often feel its connection with the "Id".Whether it is hunger or thirst, or sexual impulse, cold or warm requirements, once they arise in life, they will be ignorantly aware that they are the requirements of "I".In order to meet these requirements, "I" will find ways to take actions. After further experience, there seems to be a difference between the "self" with a great observation and thinking nature about the world and the instinctive impulse of hunger.It's like people sometimes pat their belly and say: "Are you full now?" The brain and the stomach seem to be two people.The "ego", which is both connected and separate from the "id", is participating in the criticism of the Oedipus complex at this time; obviously, our instinctive impulses about hunger, thirst, warmth, and sex are not necessarily directly involved in this. Research. Then, we also discovered that the "superego" is indeed a real psychological existence. In the simplest terms, everyone has a bunch of rules and regulations about the morality, ethics, and order of the world in their minds.If you observe more deeply, you will know that there is a much greater self-regulating power hidden in our hearts than the obvious rules and regulations.It is the force that involuntarily influences and conditions you in everything you do; it often manifests itself without thinking about it.It makes you appear hesitant, contradictory, guilty, painful, restless, fearful, anxious, anxious, and cowardly when you do certain things. It regulates you all the time, and your "self" may not be conscious in most cases. But it has been regulated. As long as you think about it carefully, you will understand that many things we do in this world are not unimpeded, not only in the external world, but also within ourselves. It is this power that can be called "superego" for the time being Dominating us. Personality and psychology are a huge and complex existence, and human beings can describe it in different structures from different angles, and even divide it into many aspects.Here, the establishment of all models is to conform to the psychological facts as simply and accurately as possible, and help to study the laws of psychological movement.In this sense, we admit that Freud's triadic theory of personality structure is justified. Then we will find that in the living psychological activities, the power that can be called "self", as the intermediary between "id" and the objective world, often conflicts with "id". "Id" is an instinctive impulse, it only has the tendency to satisfy itself, and because the "ego" accepts and summarizes the objective world, it cannot satisfy the "Id" obediently and without compromise needs.It needs to consider various possibilities and ways to realize the "self".It must be based on the actual situation of the objective world, so as to make various regulations and restrictions on the unrestrained requirements of the "id".Everyone will often experience the restraint and cover-up of various instinctive impulses of the "id" by the "self". We will also find that the "self" as the intermediary between the "id" and the objective world is often the only representative of the "id". The "self" carries all the impulses of the "id" to find ways to use and overcome the objective world. In its various efforts to realize the requirements of the "id", it constantly conflicts violently with the objective world it faces. The "self" is indeed on two fronts.When it represents the objective world, it suppresses the "id".When it represents the "id", it has to fight against the objective world. We then discovered that the "ego" is in the intermediary of the "superego" and the "id".When it faces the "superego" as the only representative of the "id", it tries its best to break through the taboos and restrictions of the "superego".In order to satisfy all kinds of instinctive impulses and get rid of the shackles of ethical and moral concepts that can be called "superego", a person often has to go through some conflicts in his mind. Only when he overcomes the rules and regulations of "superego" can he be free act with scruples. We naturally also find that the "ego" often represents the "superego" to suppress and fight against the "id".A person will often proceed from obvious or potential moral and ethical concepts to regulate his own unscrupulous instinctive impulses.This kind of norm and struggle is often very difficult, leading to violent inner conflicts. In this way, we have a general understanding of the three psychological forces that Freud called "id", "ego" and "superego", and they all exist in our psychological activities inextricably.The division of them is by no means as distinct as the division of territories, but a flesh-and-blood relationship of mutual penetration, mutual transformation, mutual identity, and mutual opposition. Freud and subsequent psychologists described the distribution of the three parts of personality throughout human consciousness as follows: Part of the "self" is expressed in the conscious mind, and a larger part is stored in the subconscious mind.Between the conscious and subconscious, a part of the "self" manifests itself subconsciously (or preconsciously).When a person thinks seriously, it is undoubtedly the conscious "self".When a person walks or rides a bicycle, the limbs are operated subconsciously.When a person sleeps at night, what he sees, hears, does, and acts in the dream is the subconscious expression of the "self". It seems that the "Id" is completely silent in the subconscious.When the "ego" loses consciousness, the existence of the "Id" is usually not felt.When the "ego" is conscious, the entire impulse of the "id" is realized.When the "self" is unconscious, the "id" affects the "self" in a potential way.After a little experience, you will know that although the "self" can be realized by the conscious mind, the conscious mind is the conscious mind of the "self", and the "self" itself is always lurking in the sea of ​​subconsciousness. As for the "superego", it seems more natural to exist in the conscious and subconscious respectively.In the conscious mind are abstract theoretical provisions, while in the subconscious mind is a chaotic, boundless and huge dominant force. Freud's three-in-one theory of personality structure naturally has its limitations. When this theory runs through the Oedipus complex, the "Id" mainly refers to the sexual desire of infants and young children.In the Oedipus complex, the infant sees the mother as the object of the sexual instinct and the father as the enemy for the fulfillment of this instinctual desire. The "superego" naturally comes from cultural norms such as ethics and morals in human society.The "ego" of infants and young children undoubtedly develops gradually in the process of adjusting the relationship between "id" and "superego". It is in the Oedipus complex that we discover the bias and limitations of Freud's theory of personality structure.Its biggest flaw and limitation is that it completely biologicalizes the human sexual instinct. We can see this tendency throughout Freud's theory. He opposed the normative force of human social culture and human biological instinct in a relatively simple way.The conflict between the instinct of sexual desire and the ethical and moral concepts of human society is his basic idea for analyzing mental diseases and psychological phenomena. What we want to point out is that not only concepts such as ethics and morality are completely socialized and culturalized, but even so-called "instincts" such as human sexual desires are also "culturalized" in human society.In a sense, human beings have almost no biological sexual desires and impulses in an absolute sense. Sexual desire, manifested in the form of sexual drive, seems to be a purely physiological phenomenon, but for humans it is at the same time a psychological phenomenon.What seems to be a purely biological phenomenon is actually a cultural phenomenon.A purely physical, purely biological sexuality is hard to find, as every mature man and woman can understand with a little thought. The biggest flaw in Freud's theory is that he never realized that since labor created human beings, the essence of human beings is practice. It is a kind of advanced life that creates the world and itself in practice. All its activities They all show practicality, and all show the main melody of constantly resolving contradictions, overcoming objects, and conquering the world.This melody dominates all areas of human social life, and even sex has become a special field of practice in human society. Like other social practices of human beings, it also has the inevitable manifestation of human beings in practice to resolve contradictions and overcome objects. , the basic melody of conquering the world. Animals also have sexual behavior, sexual competition, and sexual possession; among animals, there are also "conceptual" and "powerful" possession of sex that exceeds physiological needs, and male jealousy that is absolutely exclusive.However, since human beings have productive labor practice and the entire social and cultural practice based on it, sex has become a particularly important practice field for human beings.Sex is also marked with all the cultural characteristics of human practice. The so-called pure physiological sexual instinct is completely soaked and shaped by culture. One, for human beings, sex is first of all to solve the problem of population reproduction. Population reproduction is an important part of the entire labor production of human beings, and it is half of the entire human production.No matter how far modern people's sexual activities deviate from the concept of reproduction of labor force in the original sense, and how far they are from the concept of traditional family inheritance, the concept of population reproduction still inevitably exists in people's subconscious mind. In modern society, when those men and women who have had children evaluate those who decide to be sterile for life, they will say very simply: "If no one has children, human beings will become extinct." In this evaluation, it has been shown that The basic survival concept of human population reproduction.This is the need for human survival.This is a deep concept that modern people cannot completely erase.This notion is also casting our sexual instincts. Faced with the need for direct population reproduction, ancient humans produced a culture of genital worship. Modern humans seem to have long been far away from this culture, but they are still immersed in it in essence.When they saw those majestic buildings such as towering pagodas, temples and monuments, the spontaneous sense of reverence, heroism, solemnity, and sacredness reproduced the genital worship of ancient humans. In fact, modern people also have genital worship in various disguises.One of the spiritual bases for many men and women who are planning to have children or have already given birth to decide to adopt reproductive behavior is to show their reproductive ability.In the words of many people, only by giving birth can one prove that one is a complete person.This spiritual need and satisfaction is the modern version of genital worship based on the needs of human population reproduction.This idea often affects the sexual drive.Because the thought that sex will lead to fertility can both stimulate and inhibit libido. Second, in the process of realizing quite a lot of sexual desires, human beings not only satisfy their physical needs, but also meet their psychological needs. One of them is that many people have an impulse to prove that their sexual functions are complete in the process of sexual life. .This is what people in a civilized society can self-examine and admit.Modern people prove that their sexual abilities are sound or even excellent, and they are deeply attached to the overall sexual practice that meets the needs of physiological sexual impulses. Here, we see the similarities between human sexual practice and other human practices.This is not only a purely physical need, but also a cultural and psychological need in the true sense.This cultural and psychological need is also casting sexual desire and impulse.When a man strengthens (or weakens) his libido in order to prove his sexuality, we have to say that his libido is indeed by no means purely biological. Third, another difference between human sexual practice and the purely physiological sexual behavior of animals is that it always runs through the heart of various emotions. reasonable needs. All kinds of sexual intercourse and sex life are not only to satisfy physical sexual impulses, but also to seek psychological mutual caress.The psychological communication and mutual comfort between the opposite sex often directly create sexual desire.Here, purely biological instinct is completely entangled with social culture and psychology. Any purely biological and physiological sexual desire will be expressed in spiritual and emotional mutual communication and comfort; and emotional and spiritual mutual communication and comfort are creating and developing what appears to be purely biological and physiological sexual desire.Here, it is difficult to see purely biological sexuality. Fourth, in real life, we can also see that sexual jealousy is often an important psychological factor that stimulates and inhibits sexual desire. The rivalry among the males in fauna, whether for the horns of bulls or roosters, shows that there is sexual jealousy in them too.However, human sexual jealousy is much deeper, more powerful, and much more widespread than that of animals, and it is related to human culture.Everyone greatly expands the radius of their own sexual jealousy due to social and cultural reasons. Sexual jealousy caused by various social and cultural reasons often directly produces sexual desire and impulse. In many literary life plots, sexual desire is often directly stimulated by sexual jealousy. Some men immediately have new feelings for this woman just because they see a woman who is tired of him falling in love with another outstanding man. love.When this kind of love is accompanied by a strong impulse that may be called sexual instinct, we only look at his profile with a tolerant smile and smile a little bit ironically. Fifth, in modern society, or even in society since ancient times, sexual practice is not only manifested in the two parties who have sexual intercourse, but also in the face of the entire social culture. Many people's sexual conquest is far from satisfying pure sexual needs, but to satisfy a sense of possession, accomplishment, status, power, self-esteem, or commonly known as vanity.In the conquest of the opposite sex, it is not the pure sexual instinct that is the only driving force, but more importantly, these human social and cultural concepts are forming the driving force, including the formation of sexual desire itself. Here, it is not necessary for everyone to be a great writer or psychologist, as long as anyone who can introspect a little can discover this.How many love impulses, including their accompanying sexual impulses, are stimulated in the pursuit of a sense of possession, achievement, status, power, and power.Whether it is a man or a woman, in the process of his (her) conquest of the opposite sex, the strong sexual desire is not only often not the cause of the impulse to conquer, but may even be rooted in the impulse to conquer.The other party's social status, education level and other honors mark one's sense of accomplishment in conquering the other party, prove one's own strength, and produce sexual desires and impulses that seem to be purely physiological for completely non-physiological reasons. Sixth, human sexual desire and impulse often have a clear tendency, that is, the pursuit of sexual novelty.This again cannot be explained by the purely physiological sexual desire instinct. In life, no matter how widely a person falls in love in his behavior, or strictly abides by the moral norms and "single to the end", curiosity about sex and yearning for sexual novelty are the essence of everyone.If moral norms are ignored, "loving the new and loathing the old" is actually a common tendency of human beings in love life. Everyone has an irresistible fascination for sexual objects other than the ones they have already obtained. This kind of fascination is by no means a general, purely physiological sexual impulse, nor is it the above-mentioned psychological needs, but is mixed with a lot of The quest for sexual novelty of ingredients.When this kind of pursuit and yearning breaks through the norms of morality and ethics and turns into actual sexual behavior, we often see that the reason why men or women who violate the law do so is not because the new opposite sex is better than the one they already got, but rather Just because it contains the pursuit of sexual novelty. Of course, human society also makes moral and ethical criticisms and restrictions on various extramarital fouls.What we want to point out in a psychological sense is that the search for sexual novelty is one of the psychological causes of this foul behaviour. Human beings are advanced beings of practice. They pursue the unknown in all fields, constantly resolve the contradiction between the unknown and the known, and have the impulse to pursue novelty.This melody permeates all human activities, and it naturally permeates human sexual activities.When we say that this kind of curiosity of a completely social and cultural nature has created various sexual desires and impulses of human beings, it is by no means an ethical defense for this or that "like the new and dislike the old". It is social and cultural factors that are creating people's sexual instincts and impulses. Seventh, in the sexual activities of human beings, we can also see a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the stronger the desire and impulse for the love and the opposite sex that are harder to get; the less sexual desire for the love and the opposite sex that is easier to get with impulsiveness. This is a law of love that can no longer be abused by novelists.Chasing the one you love after twists and turns often makes the desire in full swing; but the love that is easy to get by taking the sheep makes the desire indifferent.Here again the sexual instinct manifests itself in a peculiarly human way. Human beings are practical human beings. Whatever he does, the basic melody of resolving contradictions, overcoming objects, and conquering the world plays a dominant role.The same goes for sexual practice.No matter how people praise the purity and nobility of love, we have to say that for millions of years, human beings who have survived and developed in practice have indeed unconsciously regarded sex and love as their own special fields of practice.In this field, there is also the urge to solve problems and strive for victory. This is an irresistible urge. Those who follow the moral code, those who regard love as a noble emotion, are also unconsciously governed by this basic melody.Even if there does not seem to be any vanity pursuit of possession, status, power, etc. in this relationship, it will still be dominated by the suspense of whether you can solve this problem.Any success or failure in his sexual practice, such as falling in love, finding a partner, and getting caresses from the opposite sex, will greatly affect his emotions. If he resolves contradictions and makes progress in his sexual practice, he will feel joy, build self-confidence, and have a sense of victory.A setback, even one borne by him alone, unknown to anyone, involving no vanity, would be a great blow to his spirit.Just like a child who fails to play with a complex toy alone, he will be anxious, irritable, may continue to work hard, and may become discouraged. Human beings unconsciously regard love as a labor, an endeavor, an answer to a difficult problem, and a conquest of a project.No matter how weak they are, by their very nature they desire the success of sexual practice.Everyone envies those heroes in love. There are so many love stories in ancient mythology, and those stories all show the "heroes" in love practice.It is the melody of resolving contradictions, wrestling with objects, overcoming objects, and conquering the world in love stories that also inspires all members of human beings from the deepest part of life. The strength of a person's sexual desire is often not derived from the physiological state, but from the impulse to conquer the subject of love. Eighth, since human beings unconsciously regard sexual practice as a special field of practice, and since human beings are also dominated by the basic melody of resolving contradictions, overcoming objects, and conquering the world in this special field, they will very thoroughly show that they are different from other Practice is like an infinitely expanding and aggressive trend, and he will be eager to overcome various difficulties and break through various boundaries. In real life, the biggest problems and boundaries are the norms constituted by laws, morals, ethics, and public opinion.On the one hand, these norms have become a huge restriction on sexual practice and sexual activities, and on the other hand, they have become the most stimulating opposites to sexual activities and sexual practices. There is a basic driving force in human practice, eager to solve contradictions, especially those difficult contradictions.In this way, on the one hand, there is a huge normative force. It seems that most people are following the norms, and some people seem to be absolutely normative in their behavior; on the other hand, as far as the deep subconscious is concerned, almost all people have the desire to break through the norms impulse. As long as we do a little research on human social life, we can find that almost all illegitimate sexual activities that go beyond moral and ethical norms have some kind of special stimulation for those practitioners. In this way, we see two simple maxims that people can understand even if they don't want to admit it openly, very literary and psychological: Marriage leads to the death of love. Foul to maintain passion. When some people break through the norms of morality, ethics and even the law to get the stimulation of sex and the impulse of sexual desire, on the one hand, we may warn them that they will be punished if they eat the forbidden fruit; The meaning points out that this desire to break through norms and the sexual impulse it creates are actually just variations of the basic melody of human beings’ desire to resolve conflicts and break through object constraints in the entire practice. We can't help but think of God's punishment of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Ninth, only under the regulation of the normative system can human sexual practice maintain reasonable boundaries.Here, the strictest and most powerful norm is the taboo of incest in human society.This taboo has been extremely severe since ancient times, because the impulse it suppresses may also be the strongest, as we have seen more or less in the analysis of the Oedipus complex. Although the non-standardization of sexual relations has become a common phenomenon all over the world, extramarital sex that breaks through the marriage and family system has been tolerated by public opinion in quite a few countries and regions. Restraints show different degrees of vulnerability in different countries, but the taboo on incest is still very severe in most ethnic groups. Here, the human cultural norm system shows its integrity and maturity.Norms have settled into the mental patterns of generations of members of human society; few of these taboos are explicitly spoken out, yet people abide by them.Generations of parents have naturally passed down the basic rules of taboo observance to their children.All parents understand what their relationship with their children should be like.All infants and toddlers learn what their relationship with their parents should be like when they grow up, and what their relationship with their children should be like when they grow up and become parents. The mature moral and ethical normative system of human beings arranges everything grandly and properly. Although the vast majority of human beings strictly abide by this taboo; however, the urge to break through the taboo does not exist deep down.As the Oedipus complex reveals, this is an important conflict that affects the growth of each individual's personality.At this time, the subconscious will resolve the contradiction in a covert way.Ever since, we have seen this or that phenomenon under the generally grand and normal ethical order. Under all the beautiful family relationships, we not only see the son's Oedipus complex, the daughter's Electra complex, but also the mother's Oedipus complex and the father's Oedipus complex.The taboo against incest is generally observed, and incestuous acts are generally not practiced; however, latent sexuality is expressed through these complexes.In a small number of deformed families, it behaves very excessively, resulting in some deformed personalities. We finally paint a complete picture. We can also clearly say that a purely biological sexual instinct does not exist in human society.A purely biological "id" does not exist. On the one hand, the exploration of the theory enables us to fully understand the greatness of Freud's discovery of the Oedipus complex; The main limitation, thus, we can treat Freud's Oedipus conclusion more correctly from the perspective of practical human beings, and it is possible to examine personality from a broader and more thorough social and cultural perspective than Freud and complex. There is no purely biological person divorced from social culture.Man's "superego" and "ego" are of full cultural nature ; People's "self" is also infiltrated and shaped by social culture. 带着这个透彻的观点，我们就可能以更加犀利的目光从童话故事中发现有关人格的更多奥秘。