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In Freudian theory, the desire and conflict of the four-year-old male child
who wants to possess his mother sexually and to eliminate the father rival. The
threat of punishment from the father causes repression of these id impulses.
Conflict in little boys between their love for their mothers, their jealousy of
their fathers, and their fear that their fathers will punish them for loving
their mothers. Girls have a similar sexual desire for the father which is
repressed in analogous fashion and is called the Electra complex.
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