Compose a 3500 words essay on Freud, Klein and the Oedipus Complex. Needs to be plagiarism free!Download file to see previous pages... This essay aims to explore the Oedipus Complex as coined and init

Compose a 3500 words essay on Freud, Klein and the Oedipus Complex. Needs to be plagiarism free!

This essay aims to explore the Oedipus Complex as coined and initially developed by Freud and then later advanced by Klein. The researcher assess both the similarities and the differences in the theories of Klein and Freud and examine criticisms aimed at both. The development of the Oedipus Complex from Freud until now will be stated in a bid to assess whether it holds the validity it once did. It is also argued that Klein brought Freud’s work into a more applicable realm, in terms of children, and that hence she made it more applicable and less susceptible to criticism. Freud’s theory on the Oedipus Complex is based centrally around the notion that children between the ages of 3 and 6 years “have intense loving feelings towards one parent and seek to possess that parent exclusively”. Fraud sought to explore the effects of sexual trauma on the personality and was inadvertently “drawn further and further back into the past”, ending finally in the early years of childhood. Klein also digressed from some aspects of Freud’s Oedipus Complex. Klein essentially claims that the ability of an individual to form relationships in their adult life is primarily dependent upon good internal objects, which are based on the individual’s early experiences with their mother, and whether they view internally as good or bad. The researcher then concluds that while more recent criticisms, it cannot be denied that Freud laid the major base elements of the theory, allowing developments to be made in terms of its application and specific content.