Question

Which of the following is the most criticized and least empirically supported of Freud's ideas?

Answer 1

Answer:

d. Oedipus and Electra complexes  

Explanation:

Sigmund Freud is the great founder of psychoanalysis. He and psychoanalysis have become so popular that their ideas are often misreported and distorted, like everything that goes through a widespread process, especially in a mass society like ours.

Freud was a great scholar and developed theories used today that explain concepts such as:

• Superego: corresponds to our moral conscience, that is, the social principles and prohibitions that are inculcated in our early years and that accompany us unconsciously throughout our lives.
• Ego: which identifies our consciousness.
• Latency period: This is the phase between child and adult sexual organization, and comprises a decrease in what may be called sexual activity.

However, the Oedipus and Electra complexes were not explained by Freud and correspond to the most criticized and least supported complexes by Freud's studies.