Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

(D) Psychoanalysts would say that Jamal has an oral fixation. They would argue that some
traumatic event during the oral stage (birth to one year) caused some of his libidinal energy to
become fixated in that stage. Orally controlled libido is a made-up distractor, Oedipus complex
refers to boys’ supposed sexual desires for their mothers, and mother complex is a term that Jung
might use.