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
Invading the Sacred of Owen Berkely-Hill and C.D Daly. She argues that a similar approach continues to this day in the works of Caldwell, Doniger, Courtright, Kripal etc. Chapter 14 is a response by Y. Krishnan to the application of Freudian theory by Paul Courtright which depicts "Fight between Shiva and Ganesha" as Oedipus and castration complex. Y. Krishnan proclaims, by referring the original Hindu scriptural sources (various Puranas), that "core Freudian assumptions simply do not apply to Ganesha and Shiva and also Western scholars have stretched the facts to fit their thesis".Yvette Rosser analyzes Somnath Bhattacharya's essay titled "Kali's Child : Psychological