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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (91660)12/17/2004 3:20:26 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
First of all, your statement about "Bushie's oedipal stuff with his daddy", as you put it, demonstrates your lack of understanding of the term. An "oedipal complex" is something a male might have regarding his mother, not his father.

It involves competition by the son against his father for the affection of his mother:

# Conflict develops: the parent of the same sex becomes competition for the other parent's affection.
# Child thus seeks to displace the other parent.
# But the child learns how to compete for attention by mimicking the behavior of the parent of the same sex. [we are learning by competitive imitation the roles of heterosexual love.]

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GWB is competing with his father for the affection of Barbara Bush. Given that Barbara Bush is widely reported as being a harridan from hell, the development of an oedipal complex is not surprising. Young George had a beastly mother whose approval he could never gain, so he is seeking it as an adult.
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