Stephen Black wrote:
> But while Freud can be blamed for many things (and I do), the
> Electra complex is not one of them, although most textbooks,
> including one that I assign, will tell you otherwise.
>
> Freud hated the concept. I even have a quote to prove it. He
> said:
>
> "It is only in the male child that we find the fateful
> combination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred of
> the other as a rival" (S. Freud, _Female Sexuality_, 1931)
And in fact David Myers uses exactly that quote to make exactly that
point in his introductory textbook (I use it in my Authorship Assessment as
the example of when it IS appropriate to use a quote rather than
paraphrasing).
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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