On the basis of the greek myth of King Oedipus, who unknowingly married his mother and killed his own father, Sigmund Freud designates with the Oedipus complex a period of a child’s psychological-sexual development, where the children’s mind keeps the unconsciousness desire to sexually possess the parent of the opposite sex. Without dissolution such wishes can still exist in adulthood, which inevitably leads into a failure of relationships. – The work also addresses thoughts about the difficulties of being an autarkic individual in any kind of relationships. Often the referent power in parental relationships, an absorbed possessive mentality or feelings of dependency prohibit the development of a healthy relationship.