Salam Qweider,
two notes:
1- Freud uses "Oedipus" as a name for his theory, but he does not mean that the origin of our love to our parents is sexual only. I would say the name of the theory is misleading (since it reminds people of the greek myth around it).

Freud was trying to explain why kids, at a certain age, feel a "selfish" love towards their mother or father, and they don't want anybody to share their attention with them.

For example, when a kid gets a brother or sister, he feels very jealous of them because of the attention they get, especially from the mother.

Freud was trying to explain the jealously that the first kid feels against his father (even before the kid has any brothers or sisters).

Freud's theory is that there's this "basic desire" that is born with the person and that it evolves. His theory is that this basic desire starts as "food - mouth related" (this is why babies like to eat), and then morphes into the desire to control one's discharge (ya3ni ass), and then turns into this parent-jealousy, and finally, when the person is old enough, it turns into the sexual desire we have.

He says that in certain patients, this parent-jealousy feeling lingers so long, to the point it turns sexual. But he doesn't say that this is how every person thinks. He says that normal people, when they hit puberty, somehow come to "repress" sexual feelings toward their parents, and thus not think about their relationship towards them this way.

In another way, the theory tries to explain why some patients have such parental-sexual ideas and how most people avoid them.

Whether this theory is true or false - I'll leave that to the shrinks!

2- good news: this theory did not go without critique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Complex#Critiques_of_the_Oedipus_Complex

Critiques of the Oedipus Complex

Popular culture often portrays Freud as overly focused on sexual influences and his theory of the Oedipus Complex is often considered untenable. However, there have always been a great deal of critiques of the Oedipus complex among psychoanalysts and philosophers who acquainted themselves with the work of Freud.

Alfred Adler contended with Freud's belief over the dominance of the sex drive and whether ego drives were libidinal; he also attacked Freud's ideas over repression. Adler believed that the repression theory should be replaced with the concept of ego-defensive tendencies - compared to the neurotic state derived from inferiority feelings and overcompensation of the masculine protest, Oedipal complexes were to him insignificant. Although Freud believed that the Oedipus complex takes place around the age of five, Melanie Klein believed it took place far earlier, possibly in the first two years of a child's life. There have also been criticisms from anthropologists such as Bronisław Malinowski or Edvard Westermarck. Research such as that of Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands is often cited as a challenge to Freud's conviction that the Oedipus complex is a universal phenomenon.

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araf ye2ref el yahood !

يا زلمة بلا فرويد بلا بطيخ
هاذا واحد مهووس بالجنس وعقلو ضارب وكان مدمن كوكائين درجة أولي يعني طول نهارو هاي وبسبح بالأحلام

Muhammad Arabi, thx for the exaplanation. You gave us good info.

Qwaider, I don't think that you are in a position to counter Freud's studies by only saying that you want to believe in the goodness of human nature. Freud was a scientist, he is highly respected in the psychological world, he based his theories on research and studies. If we fail to understand his theories, then it is our problems, not his.

Sometimes we refuse to face reality because we have a set of believes that differs of what exists in real world. I am not saying that all people has a hidden sexual desire for their parents, but his theories do explain human behaviour at certain age.

Abed Hamdan, Shoo dakhal el yahood halla2? Is it because Freud was a jew?

Bakkouz! lol man, how can you turn such serious subject into this sarcasm? Was Freud really addicted?

The Observer, Yes, he really was.

Qwaider, you are right about questioning everything, and yes, you have the right to speak up your mind (especially on your blog), but you have based your attack on a respected scientific theories on your personal set of believes without countering them with other scientific materials.

Dont you think that I have the right to critisize you when I think you go wrong as you felt you had the write to critisize a respected scientist without any logical counter argument except your own feelings?

يا اخي سجمون فرويد كان منظر علم نفس..وليس بالضرورة ان نظرياته خاطئة...انت تعتقد نها خاطئةلان مظاهرها ليست موجودة في بلادنابشكل كبير ولو كانت موجودة فهي مخفية ودائما ما خفي اعظم.ولا تنسى ان هذه المظاهر منتشرة بالغرب بشكل كبير
وشكرا