The psychological complex is a set of representations, thoughts, feelings and attitudes of a person about himself that do not correspond to reality. Most of the subjective distortions come from childhood, when the child, like a sponge, absorbs the opinions of significant adults and does not know how to protect himself.
There are 5 main sources of complexes:
- Family. Parents are the first important people for a child. They give the baby the first ideas about himself and about the world as a whole. It depends on them how the child will perceive the surrounding reality: to feel loved and significant, or a picture in which no one needs him will permanently settle in his worldview.
- The child grows, his environment expands, friends appear. At the moment when the opinion of the comrades becomes more important than the parent (transitional age), parental authority fades into the background. And teenagers with a raging hormonal background, not understanding the reality of what is happening, take on faith everything that is said about them.
- The second half affects the worldview even in adulthood. A rejected woman can easily decide that the matter is in her insufficient beauty and believe it forever. That is why when a person is loved and elevated to a pedestal, it blooms, changes in the eyes in a positive direction.
- The social environment plays an equally important role. A person strives for the sameness, to show that "I am the same as you, " to be accepted, to avoid rejection and expulsion from the desired group.
- And also a person sometimes dooms himself to suffering because of his characteristic features, upbringing and well-developed imagination.
Summarizing all of the above, we can conclude that complexes are distorted representations of oneself, once received from others and accepted as truth.