“A boy's best friend is his mother” Norman Bates, “Psycho”. According to Freud, “the Oedipus complex is a passage that all male children go through in their childhood”. What is the Oedipus complex, why do people get it? The Oedipus complex is: "it is a desire for sexual involvement, during the crucial stage of a man's development, with his mother and a feeling of rivalry with his father" (according to psychoanalytic theory) . The Oedipus complex has its roots in the Greek myth about Oedipus. The Oedipus complex is so strong in human beings that it conceives the superego while overcoming this phenomenon. The superego is the moral factor that dominates the conscious adult mind. Even though none of us want to acknowledge the fact that our relationships with our parents are one of hate and love, it happens. Most people feel love towards the person who cares for them the most, which is usually the mother, and then feel that their father is their rival. As children, we always seem to feel the need for our mother's attention and when someone gets in the way of that connection, we start to feel jealous towards our mother....