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PubMed1976

Oedipus of Thebes: the myth and its other meanings.

Sigmund Freud used the Oedipus myth to represent a crucial part of sexual development. Careful attention to the details of the myth as related by Sophokles points the way to entirely different and fruitful understandings. Myth is seen as an external representation of man's inner life; omens and the gods are viewed in this context. We can then see Oedipus' suffering as inseparable from loss and growth. In his struggle and ambivalence, Oedipus represents that suffering and transcendence for all of us. The myth tells us of the responsibilty, the pain, and the courage which are necessary ingredients in all human growth.

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PubMed1981

Stereotypes, stepmothers, and splitting.

Asserting that preteen children cannot tolerate ambivalence, a recent study extols the "wicked stepmother" stereotype in fairy tales for providing a safe outlet for child-mother aggression. However, even theories which consider splitting normal in object-relations development see it as operating mostly before age 3. Dualistic thinking is not ubiquitous in childhood, nor is it ever outgrown. Rather, it is a mode of organizing experience mythopoetically; we learn to minimize its intrusions in dealings with day-to-day realities. There is no scientific justification for (and there are moral objections to) the propagation of the wicked stepmother stereotype.

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