The Oedipus Complex In Sigmund Freud's In The Fairy Tale

In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretations of Dreams, he spoke of the Oedipus Rex, which is also known as the Oedipus complex. Where in most cases the son kills off the father in order to marry and get with the mother (Freud, 816). Freud believes that all men have these desires in their id but their superego ends up compressing these thoughts. The reason for this is because society rejects these impulses and so we must learn control our urges. Notice how, in the last sentence instead of placing a specific gender the use of “we” is in place, the reason for this is because it goes for both gender. That is because Freud later substituted the desires of the son for the abused daughter and the desirable mother for the guilty father (Freud, 808). This …show more content…
Cinderella has a tree that she can call upon and ask for anything she wants and so she wasn’t really suffering that much in the story. She also has the ability to call for the animals to “help” her out, whenever she needs. Some can even say Cinderella is more of a witch than an innocence little girl that we all think she is. The animals are more like servants that cleans for her and the ones that create the dress for her to go to the ball. She also uses her animals to enact her revenge on her sisters. So in many way, Cinderella’s story of “abused” can be view as a facade to help her get what she wants, the attention that she needs to get “Prince Charming” since she was unable to get that from her father. Which goes back to the idea that the mother and daughter would complete to get the father’s attention similar to how the father and son completes for the mother’s attention. In “Snow White”, instead of having a father that is a bystander, the father was completely written out of the story. What was put in place was the huntsman as the father figure. The huntsman at first listens to the queen’s request to kill off Snow White but he didn’t. And that is because of how beautiful Snow White was. Snow White’s character was also overly sexualized with lips that are “red as blood” (Brothers Grimm, 83). Red lips …show more content…
Here we have another guilty father and an evil mother. The story starts off with, the mother trying to convince the father to leave the children in the forest, the husband disagrees with the idea at first but soon he went along with it. Afterwards, the children meet up with the evil witch in the forest. The evil witch can be seen as a “mother figure,” her house provides food for the children similar to how a mother should be the one that nurtures and feed her own children. But in this story both of the “mother figures,” fail to do their job. One neglects the children and the other tries to eat