Quiz 3 ch. 8 Myths and Complexes

Question 1

Oedipus

Answer 1

born son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes, the Delphic oracle predicted that he grow and kill his father and marry his mother. To escape this prophecy the parents gave him to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. When he became a young adult he heard rumor of the truth and the Delphic oracle confirmed so he decided to leave Corinth. As he was leaving the Delphi he fought and killed a man blocking the bridge…this man was his real father King Laius. As he continued his journey to Thebes he came across the sphinx who was plaguing the city with a riddle. He solved it and got rid of the sphinx and as a reward he was given the hand of the widow Queen Jocasta…..his Mother.

Question 2

Electra

Answer 2

daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon sacrificed her sister Iphigenia fro favorable winds to sail the Greek fleet for the Trojan War. When Agememnon returned from the Trojan war he returned with war booty, Cassandra. But while he was away fighting his wife Clytemnestra had an affair with Agememnon’s cousin Aegisthus. When Agememnon returned his wife and her lover murdered him. Agememnon and Clytemnestra’s son Orestes helped and encouraged Electra to avenge their father’s murder and killed their mother Clytemenstran and her lover Aegisthus.

Question 3

Narcissus

Answer 3

a very handsome youth who happened to catch sight of a reflection of himself in a pool of water. He fell in love with he beautiful image and became so obsessed by longing for it that he pined away or, in some versions, fell into the pool and drowned. He was turned into the flower that bears his name.

Question 4

I-ego

Answer 4

ego-egocentric and egoist; viewing the world in relation to oneself to the exclusing of almost everything else.
The mediator between the Id and the superego; the reality principle.

Question 5

Id

Answer 5

it-pleasure principle (unconscious, repressed wishes)

Question 6

Superego

Answer 6

above-which controls or regulates the impulses of the unconscious.
Oedipus complex is resolved as he begins to identify with his father by imitating and adopting his character and moral system, which leads to the formation of what Freud calls the Superego. Morality principle,

Question 7

Oedipus complex

Answer 7

Sigmund Freud’s famous theory-personalities develop early. For infant and toddler boys they identify the mother in a pleasure-seeking way through her provision of food and warmth. Because sexual is also present in young males and a pleasurably desire the Male child has sexual desire for the mother and wishes to rid himself of the father.

Question 8

Electra complex

Answer 8

this is Freud’s theory that describes the females desire for her father and rejection of her mother.