eli5 Oedipal and Electra complexes

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Wtf is up with these complexes developed by Freud?? I have a bachelors in psych so I have studied them but no matter which angle I try to look at it from, I cannot comprehend the reasoning behind them.
Why can’t kids just live their parents and be done with it? I know pretty much everything with Freud was sex but come on now…

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It’s my understanding that Freud’s psychosexual developmental theories have fallen out of favor with most modern psychologists so you aren’t alone in thinking it’s a bit much.

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