Oedipus Complex Pop Culture

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Pop Culture Sigmund Freud was a psychologist in the early 1900’s he invented with a theory known as the Oedipus Complex. The Oedipus Complex is when a child has a strong bond with one of there parents of the opposite gender, to the point that parent number two starts to be seen as a threat. Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus Complex is used in many movies, books and TV shows. An example of one of these movies is titled “Snow White a Tale of Terror” directed by Michael Cohn in this movie the Oedipus Complex is depicted in the fact that she has such a strong bond with her father, is jealous of her stepmother for taking his attention away from her, and that she has gone so far as to plot her stepmother 's death.

Lily White’s mother dies when her parents carriage crashes. Her father cuts her dying mother open to save the …show more content…

Gustav can 't find her so he retrieves an animal heart in its place which the queen believes at first and she cooks the heart into stew and feeds it to her and her husband who is in the dark of what is going on at the time. Lily has taken residency with a group of miners.later on in the movie Claudia discovers that her step daughter is still alive so she kills her brother and decides to go after Lily White herself. In doing this Claudia kills some miners that were in her way. She later tricks Lily when she utilizes magic to turn her into an old women and gives lily a poison apple which she takes a bite of and goes into a deep slumber and can only be awoken by true love 's kiss which transpires to have been one of the miners consequently her stepmother failed once again but none of these events would have occurred if the envy between the two about Frederick Hoffman Lily 's father and Claudia 's husband was