How convincing do you find Freud's description of the Oedipus' stage of development?
             The idea of infantile sexuality has always been central to Freud and very early he has started to work on a basic theory for the Oedipus complex: the desire for the parent of the other sex and hostility towards the other.The first name chosen is 'nuclear complex', then 'paternal complex'.It is only in 1910 that the term 'Oedipus complex' is first used. In a first approach that doesn't give a clear answer of the difference between the boy and the girl, by linking the Oedipus complex to the castration complex, breaks the symmetry between male Oedipus and female Oedipus and gives a real dimension to the psychoanalytic theory. But this difference in the psychic development of the boy and the girl shouldn't withdrawn the fact that for the boy as much for the girl, the first love object is the mother.
             Pre-genital sexuality is a major fact in childhood and adult sexuality is mainly based on it. According to Freud, the child has different stages of development before puberty; each one is part biological, cultural and shaping one's identity. He has widely written about the omnipresence during childhood of a sexual urge, essentially auto-erotic, firstly oral (the child is sucking his mother's breast), then anal (development of erogenic), and finally phallic within which the Oedipus complex starts to develop. For the boy, around the age of three, spontaneous and voluptuous sensations around the penis appear. The child has intuition for sexual games likely to provoke these sensations, in the presence of a partner, as he supposes that it happens between his parents. He starts to desire his mother and to feel hate towards his father, there is especially a great change in his behaviour when he realises that his parents have sex together: "He (the child) begins to desire his mother herself in the sense with which he has recently become ac
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