What Is the Oedipus Complex?

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7. Psycho

Examples of the Oedipus complex can be found in literature and even on the big screen. Psycho is one example and is one of the most famous thriller horror movies ever made. The movie features Marion Crane who stays the night at the Bates Motel, which is being managed by Norman Bates.

Bates would regularly speak with his mother, although she was not actually seen. It turns out that he had already killed his mother in a fit of jealous rage over her relationship with a new man in her life, Joe Considine. Bates developed dissociated identity disorder and adopted the identity of his mother, an alter ego which would go on to kill Marion Crane and others.

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