The Oedipal complex is a hardwired pattern that commits me to the world, it forces me to latch onto another object besides myself. It is a mechanism of the unconscious; that subliminal yet perpetually active region of the brain that instinctively, inherently drives me towards a particular way of operating and comporting myself within the world. As opposed to my conscious, ego-self, in which I feel a sense of will that opens to me the choice of objects I wish to urge myself towards with the expectation of opportunistically achieving satisfaction.[1] The Oedipal complex is the mechanism within the unconscious that commits me towards another, it is the bridge in which I cross in order to be able to love the other.