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The changing dynamics within family relationships is the theme of 'My Oedipus Complex' by Frank O'Connor [b. Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan, September 17, 1903-March 10, 1966]. The short story looks at the close relationship that develops between O'Connor and his mother while his father is away for wartime military service. It continues with the author's having to learn to share his mother's attention with the return of his father from the war and with the birth of a baby brother. The relationships are viewed in terms of the necessary change in influence over normal male development from that of the mother in childhood to that of the father in adolescence.

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