Complex (psychology) experiences that affect the psyche. Although they are normal, negative complexes can cause us pain and suffering. One of the key differences between Jungian and Freudian theory is that Jung's thought posits several different kinds of complex. Freud only focused on the Oedipus complex which reflected developmental challenges that face every young boy. He did not take other complexes into account except for the Electra complex, which he briefly spoke of (Carlini, 2005). After years of working together, Jung broke from Freud, due to disagreements in their ideas, and they each developed their own theories. Jung wanted to distinguish between
Oedipus in the Trobriands and H. A. Powell in "Man". The historian Peter Gay called "Oedipus in the Trobriands" "brilliant" in "" (1988). The anthropologist Donald Brown compared the book to Freeman's "Margaret Mead and Samoa" (1983) and the linguist Ekkehart Malotki's "Hopi Time" (1983) in "Human Universals" (1991). He suggested that these books form part of a larger reaction against "anthropological relativism". He described Spiro's arguments as persuasive, and credited him with showing many deficiencies in Malinowski's reasoning. According to Brown, Weiner, although critical of Spiro, nevertheless concluded that his arguments for the universality of the Oedipus complex appear convincing. Oedipus in the