Among the reasons that the Oedipus complex is so important in psychiatry is that adults who have failed to… — M. Scott Peck
Among the reasons that the Oedipus complex is so important in psychiatry is that adults who have failed to resolve it usually have great difficulty in accomplishing many of the renunciations required for successful adult adjustments. They still have not learned that they cannot have their cake and eat it too.
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