One truth we learn through investigation is that the author, Bret Ellis, unconsciously leaves detailed information hidden within interviews. This leads the individuals reading Lunar Park to reach out to outside sources to pick up on details that are actually true within the novel.
According to Freud, Oedipus complex is known to be a theory where males unconsciously hold negative feelings towards their fathers. Repressed memories occur to allow the victim of a painful experience, and therefore traumatized, to continue life without having to deal with painful consequences of such piercing memories. Consequently, these males wish to displace and replace them. Within the novel, Bret expressed this theory towards his father. The tremendous amount of hatred Bret had for his father led him to displace and replace his father by becoming him in Robby's life. Bret Easton Ellis's novel, Lunar Park, is a work of art that reveals the author's Oedipus complex.
At the beginning of the novel, Bret begins expressing his feelings toward his father by stating "I hated my father" (Ellis 32). Bret did not want to become his father in any way. This fear of potentially resembling him became an obsession. Eventually, Bret's feelings towards his father show through his character. Later in the novel, Brett openly admits that he learned from his father's behavior that "the world lacked coherence, and that within this chaos people were doomed to failure. My father had blackened my perception of the world, and his sneering, sarcastic attitude toward everything had latched on to me. As much as I wanted to escape his influence, I couldn't. It had soaked into me, shaped me into the man I was becoming" (Ellis 7). Eventually, Bret's father influences Bret's character. Without having any control over it, Bret developed the same characteristics as his father. Throughout the novel, Bret is exhibiting poor decisions and actions similar to what his father did.
