Father's Place

I understand the father is supposed to guide a child to the pain of reality. What happens when the child isn't led by their father? What is missing from a child's psyche when there is no father present? For girls, they can't be considered daddy's little girl. Sometimes they want so badly to be that girl, they will find many men to be their daddy. Later they go on to find out that they are doing far more damage than they may have thought. A boy sometimes sees his mother as overbearing woman who he will do anything to find a woman quite the opposite of her. No matter what the choice is with the son, the mother forms his psyche and helps him to decide exactly what he wants in a partner. My brother has decided to go in the exact opposite direction of my mother. My mom is an educated, working woman who has supported the two of us financially, emotionally and psychologically throughout our lives. His current girlfriend hasn't worked in 2 years, they have a 2 year old together who doesn't speak much because her mother ignores her most of the time because she prefers to go on myspace and Facebook. My mother raised us to be educated, happy. We have been to so many places in this world because of her working her ass off I am so grateful. Oedipus felt the natural pull that many men feel to a woman like their mother. He didn't realize the difference between the woman in front of him and the fact that he wanted her was because she was his mother.