It's always seemed to be to be a very facile reading of the text- this idea that Rose lost her father, the Doctor is far older than her, and therefore, he is a father figure to her. What about how they actually behave towards one another?
Oh, don't be silly. The way the characters act is utterly irrelevant to the way the audience is supposed to react to them *grins*
I find it odd, too. Rose gets put into this 'Electra' complex slot simply because she's someone who lost her father. Rose certainly doesn't show any hostility towards her mother nor sexual desire for her father ("For you, there... it's like the Bermuda Triangle."). Nor does Rose show 'penis envy'.
Also, Freud was both a) full of crap and b) working during a time when women were considered the 'inferior' sex and so, naturally, all little girls really wanted was to be little boys instead. Product of his times (also, he doctored his study results and so I have absolutely no respect for him as a social scientist).
*dusts off hands*
Their relationship has a significant sexual aspect almost from the moment they meet. She doesn't want him to take care of her or solve her problems.
Right -- as we see in Father's Day, she doesn't respond to her actual father in any of the same ways that she responds to the Doctor (she's much younger with Pete than the Doctor, more willing to let him sacrifice himself for her than she ever would be with the Doctor, who she'll fight like a mountain cat to protect).
And the language that she uses towards the Doctor is always a language of equals, where the possibility of them being a pair is only checked by him possibly not being interested due to being an alien and her own attachment to Mickey.
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Date: 2007-09-24 04:01 pm (UTC)Oh, don't be silly. The way the characters act is utterly irrelevant to the way the audience is supposed to react to them *grins*
I find it odd, too. Rose gets put into this 'Electra' complex slot simply because she's someone who lost her father. Rose certainly doesn't show any hostility towards her mother nor sexual desire for her father ("For you, there... it's like the Bermuda Triangle."). Nor does Rose show 'penis envy'.
Also, Freud was both a) full of crap and b) working during a time when women were considered the 'inferior' sex and so, naturally, all little girls really wanted was to be little boys instead. Product of his times (also, he doctored his study results and so I have absolutely no respect for him as a social scientist).
*dusts off hands*
Their relationship has a significant sexual aspect almost from the moment they meet. She doesn't want him to take care of her or solve her problems.
Right -- as we see in Father's Day, she doesn't respond to her actual father in any of the same ways that she responds to the Doctor (she's much younger with Pete than the Doctor, more willing to let him sacrifice himself for her than she ever would be with the Doctor, who she'll fight like a mountain cat to protect).
And the language that she uses towards the Doctor is always a language of equals, where the possibility of them being a pair is only checked by him possibly not being interested due to being an alien and her own attachment to Mickey.