A Freudian Romance?

Watch the film clip below. Use your knowledge of Freud's theory of psychosexual development to explain the desires and behaviour of the boy.



Watch this clip.

What personality structure is represented in this clip?

In the one film a wooden puppet has the desire to become a 'real boy', in the other film a robot wants to become a 'real boy'. Conduct an internet search on the Oedipus complex. Do they really want to be little boys?

(or maybe they want something else.....)