Question

Todd is attracted to his therapist. his attraction reflects the feelings he had toward his mother when he was a young boy in the midst of the oedipal conflict. todd's experience illustrates:

Answer 1

Todd is attracted to his therapist. his attraction reflects the feelings he had toward his mother when he was a young boy in the midst of the oedipal conflict. Todd’s experience illustrates a result of the undealt oedipal conflict called fixation. He completely became “mother-fixated”. As grownups, these people will seek out their significant others who mirror their opposite-sex parent.

Answer 2

This illustrates transference. Todd’s experience illustrates a result of the undealt oedipal conflict called fixation.

Oedipal conflict refers to the state of being fixated in desires towards the same sex of a parent.

Here Todd was attracted to his mother when he was young and the same feeling was experienced by him towards the therapist too. This is psychological stage of attraction called transference.