Five-Year-Old Maxwell Has Recently Been Going Through the Oedipus Complex

question 58

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Maxwell has recently been going through the Oedipus complex. He has been unconsciously resentful of his father because of his father's "possession" of Maxwell's mother. According to Freud, Maxwell fears that if his father learns of these feelings, which punishment will be delivered?

• A) Maxwell's father will leave, abandoning Maxwell and his mother.
• B) Maxwell's father will cut off Maxwell's penis.
• C) Maxwell's father will take Maxwell's mother away to a new home.
• D) Maxwell's father will insist on having a new child with which to "replace" Maxwell.

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