- Joined
- Jun 3, 2016
Chris dream was an Oedipal dream and a literal sexual just because he and Barb have inappropriate boundaries and she's the only one that is willing to do touchy feeling things with him like spooning. The thing is that Chris never grew out of his Oedipal complex, so it turned into a true and honest conscious desire to bang the only Anima figure he has in his life that is willing to let him project on to her.I guess
That's how I understood it.
But it doesn't really make any difference, since we're dealing with Chris, who's far too slow-in-the-head and literal to understand what an Oedipal dream is about.
They're usually a reaction to too close, symbiotic relationships, growing up/becoming a man/woman or completely asexual transgressions and aggressions. Stuff that's best explored with a couch and a psychoanalyst.
Explaining this to Chris would be as useful as trying to discus quantum mechanics with him. You'd get a "Hmm mmh" before he would try to talk about himself again.
For Chris an Oedipal dream = a sex fantasy. And would result in little more than him waking up in soiled underwear, an uncomfortable silence at breakfast, and numerous guilt-filled masturbation sessions.