Oedipus complex the complex and that unsuccessful outcome of the complex might lead to neurosis, pedophilia, and homosexuality. Freud rejected the term "Electra complex", which was introduced by Carl Gustav Jung in 1913 in his work, ""Theory of Psychoanalysis"" in regard to the Oedipus complex manifested in young girls. Freud further proposed that the Oedipus complex, which originally refers to the sexual desire of a son for his mother, is a desire for the parent in both males and females, and that boys and girls experience the complex differently: boys in a form of castration anxiety, girls in a form of penis
The Freudian Coverup the perceptions of his female patients. Within the period between the 1970s and 1980s, and 1990s arguments were made that Freud abandoned his initial beliefs in women's accounts of abuse (the seduction theory), and replaced it with the Oedipal theory; this illustrates the ways in which he withheld or altered information from his patients, which is unacceptable in a professional context. "The Freudian Cover-up" exposed Freud’s theory, the refusal to name the offender, but furthermore, one man's attempt to hide illegal or immoral sex practices. It was within this time that Victorian men were permitted to indulge in forbidden sex,