Correct option is A
The critical component in resolving the Oedipus Complex is
the development of identification with the same-sex parent.
Information Booster:
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Freudian Psychosexual Stages: According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the
Oedipus Complex occurs during the
Phallic Stage of psychosexual development (approximately ages 3 to 6).
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Unconscious Desire and Conflict: During this stage, a young boy experiences unconscious incestuous desires for his mother and views his father as a rival for her affection, creating intense feelings of jealousy and hostility toward the father.
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Castration Anxiety: The child develops a severe unconscious fear—termed
castration anxiety—believing that the father will punish or harm him for desiring the mother.
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Resolution through Identification: To reduce this internal anxiety and guilt, the boy engages in the defense mechanism of
identification with the same-sex parent (the father). By identifying with his father, the child symbolically "possesses" the mother, internalizes the father's gender roles, values, and moral standards, and forms the foundation of his
Superego.
Additional Knowledge:
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Development of identification with the opposite-sex parent: This statement describes the underlying conflict of the complex itself rather than its resolution; desiring or over-identifying with the opposite-sex parent creates the psychosexual fixation and anxiety that the child must resolve.
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Development of identification with the siblings: Sibling dynamics focus on
peer social development or sibling rivalry, which is unrelated to the primary psychosexual crisis of resolving unconscious parental attraction and authority dynamics in Freudian theory.
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Development of identification with genetic disorder: This is completely irrelevant to psychoanalytic theory, as psychosexual development and personality structures depend on
unconscious psychological drives and relational conflicts, not genetic conditions or biological pathology.
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