MUMS, DAUGHTERS and NEUROSES

I was at an event and happened to sit behind three very vocal young ladies: usually I love to sit behind the 'happening chics" because most times they can be a well of information, although at the end of the day, one has a huge task sifting through the plethora of information in a bit to get useful morsels...So, there I was unwittingly been privy to some juicy secret(someone else's not theirs) when a much older lady walked past and the younger ladies all busted into riotous laughter  because of the former's dressing, sufficient to say this sickened me to my tummy and then I thought to myself, don't these girls realize they would soon get to her stage- after all as we all know youth is fleeting regardless of the number of plastic surgeries or age defying remedies that abound now. The woman was old enough to be any of our mother. It got me thinking as to the kind of relationships these young ladies had with their mothers and I thought about mine too, that was how the idea of this article came by. So I started chatting with friends about their mums. I shouldn't have apparently as some did not find it funny especially when I asked for a photograph of them with their mothers, in this age of camera phones and display pictures it's been a herculean task getting mom and daughter pictures( I'm still holding out) It was SHOCKING! It seems daughters prefer to bond with others apart from mom and mom of course couldn't be bothered with such mundane childish things right?
We're all familiar with Oedipus complex a term coined by the Austrian neurologist who is also the founding father of psychoanalysis Sigismund Schlomo Freud(May 6 1856 -September 23 1939). The complex has its origins from Sophocles's second Thebian play, an Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex( a Thebian king who was destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother as a consequence of a sacrilege committed by his father). The complex was used by Freud to explain the attraction of children to parents of the opposite sex and its attendant neuroses. The problem seems to be prominent amongst the fairer sex than among the male folks.Could that possibly be the reason mothers and daughters don't get along just because they're of the same sex or is there a deeper cause? It made me think. ..I fight with my mum a lot.  Why?( huge question requiring -post PHD to answer) why do daughters feel daddy will understand and not mum and invariably break mummy's heart ,could it be that mums themselves were not understood and as such cannot understand their own offspring? a sort of transferred aggression in a vicious hurting cycle?..........(To Be Continued)