Psychosexual development character Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father, Laius, and sexually possessed his mother, Jocasta. Analogously, in the phallic stage, a girl's decisive psychosexual experience is the Electra complex, her daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of father. This psychological complex derives from the 5th-century BC Greek mythologic character Electra, who plotted matricidal revenge with Orestes, her brother, against Clytemnestra, their mother, and Aegisthus, their stepfather, for their murder of Agamemnon, their father, (cf. "Electra", by Sophocles). Initially, Freud equally applied the Oedipus complex to the psychosexual development of boys and girls, but later developed the female aspects of the theory as
The Freudian Fallacy Masson's "The Assault on Truth" (1984), another book marked by hostility to Freud and psychoanalysis. According to Webster, "The Freudian Fallacy" received negative reviews in "The Times Literary Supplement" and the "London Review of Books", the latter of which included a false accusation of anti-Semitism that was later withdrawn with an apology. He criticized the press coverage that Thornton's book received in Britain, calling "The Sunday Times Magazine"′s treatment of Thornton's claims about Freud's addiction to cocaine sensational and shallow. The Freudian Fallacy The Freudian Fallacy, first published in the United Kingdom as Freud and Cocaine, is a 1983 book