Sadhasiva agama by Moolar  is taken for further study  in the similarities between Freudian and saiva siddhantha literatures. There are advantages in taking Thirumanthiram for this analysis:
1)it is estimated to have been written in 5th  century. Hence it has antedated all the 14- sastra texts. Therefore we get a glimpses of the earliest roots of saiva schools.
2) it has 3000 verses in all. Therefore we get a most elaborate description.

There are disadvantages as well :
1) the chapter arrangements, language, style of narrations need an expert Tamil interpreter
2) as the number of verses are too many there are chances for arbitrary inferences and selective abstractions. Nevertheless the overwhelming similarity between the style of narration in these schools is  surprising enough.

FREUDIAN PHALLIC PHASE:
Around the age of 3 the child enters the phallic phase, in which the penis or the clitoris is the primary erotogenic zone. The phallic stage of psychosexual development heralds the arrival of the oedipal level of development, in which relationships become more complicated than they were in the past. The emphasis is on triangular or three person relationships, instead of dyadic or two person relationships. The phallic stage is also characterized by greater tolerance of ambivalence and the ability to maintain an internal representation of the absent object.
Another major contrast between pregenital stages of development and phallic stage is the nature of the child’s libidinal activity. In the oral and anal stages, such activity , for the most part, is autoerotic in that the child’s sexual impulses are derived from one’s own body. Pleasure is still derived one’s own body in the phallic phase, but that period of development is also characterized by the fundamental task of finding a love object that will establish later patterns of object choice in adult life.

Oedipus complex:
The period of life between the ages of 3 and 5 is known as the oedipal stage of psychosexual development because the culmination of infantile sexuality –oedipal complex- occurs at that time. Freud discovered this crucial cornerstone of psychological development during his own self analysis and in his clinical work with patients in which fantasies of incest with parents of opposite sex emerged with regularity in association with  feelings of jealousy and murderous rage towards the parent of same sex. Drawing an analogy between such fantasies and Greek myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father and married his mother, Freud termed the intrapsychic constellation the oedipal complex.
 The oedipal stage of development is of central importance in pathogenesis of neuroses and many anxiety disorders. Oedipal issues are also important in the psychodynamics of character neuroses and high level personality disorders, such as histrionic personality. The Oedipus complex presents a developmental challenge for the child, and the resolution of the child differs according to the child’s gender.

Resolution for boys:
first love object of the male child is his mother. Unlike the little girl, the little boy does not have to shift his affection to another parent at the beginning of oedipal phase. The male child essentially falls in love with mother. He wishes to be the center of her world. It becomes apparent that such are interfered with by the relationship of his father and mother. As a result, he  begins to view his father as a rival.  Freud repeatedly noted that the chief source of the boy’s anxiety is that father will retaliate by removing the child’s external genitalia. The male child’s investments in keeping his genitals  supersedes his desire for mother and renounces them. This phenomenon is termed as castration complex.
Resolution for girls: Freud was frank throughout his writings about his difficulty in understanding psychological development of girls. In attempting to explain the resolution of the oedipal complex in little girls(called the Electra complex), Freud noted that the discovery of their genital state leads to feelings of inferiority and narcisstic injury and –to penis envy. Contemporary psycho-analysts  however regard penis envy, only as one aspect of the feminine identity, not the origin of it.

SIDDHANTHIC SIMILARITIES FROM THIRUMANTHIRAM:

The first 540 verses confine to the description of the PATI qualities and the superego equalants of Freud (Siva qualities in general –ethics-esthetics-and praise of Siva). From then onwards the chapters on yoga starts. Here the souls preoccupation with self-mind&body. This is Freudian equalant of oral stage. The verse from 818-837 describe the sakthi –Siva physical relationship very explicitly.

From the 1000th  verse the soul is attracted towards the sakthi (oedipal complex).  Sakthi bedham, adharavadheyam, and the meditative charts for sakthi worship occupy the next 400 verses. This is analogous to mother-son relationship (as the soul is symbolized as nandi it has to be taken as a male child). The liberation from sakthi and the efforts to move towards Siva are expressed in the next 200 verses ending with aradharam. Then the praise of the father-god in its symbolic influence on the child-soul as PHALLIC representation is described in the subsequent verses from andalingam to Siva lingam in the verses 1695-1760 .  The verses1901-1951 describe the source of germinal seeds(testicles) and the importance of it for the male-child-soul (castration anxiety). The anal stage descriptions are described next to the phallic stage. In Thirumanthiram they  occupy the verses 1999-2377. There after the pati-pasu-pasa relationship fulfillment progresses till the end of 3000 verse.
 
The liberation from sakthi and union with sivam is glorified as final salvation and mukthi which is analogous to Freudian psyche maturation at the end of phallic stage. There is no latent stage or genital stage equalants in  thirumanthiram. Also the oral-anal-phallic progression is not evident here but oral-phallic-anal progression. However the topographical model of mind is followed in the same order as superego –ego –id and pati-pasu –pasa stages namely the initial description of Siva and the travails of nandi and then the severing of attachments. Thus the arrangement is oral-phallic-anal akin to the model in the agama pattern temples in coramandalam, lingam(superego-siva-father)-pasu(ego-soul-male child)-pasa(id- severance-pedestal). The nandi faces the sivam on the front and the sakthi on the right side of its heart. The flag is an insignia of the final salvation (mukthi). There is no female equalant in the soul as does in the Freudian analytic study. It is generally felt female soul development is similar to male soul.

The work of Moolar not only forms the grammar for saiva schools, it has excellent piece of information in the self-analysis. The therapist –client model in psychoanalysis and guru-sishya relationship appear to have semblance   Meditation  seem to appear as a form of self –analysis with the individual finding his own deeper unconscious. Both Freudian exploration and yoga-exploration find similar results in form and content(topographical and dynamic) as well of the mind. However it is premature to come to a conclusion. The Freudian exploration is objective study of mind. The saiva schools study subjectively the  Meta-physical elements. One has to wonder the similarities and revise more into both schools for deeper meanings. If there is a similarity between 5th century thought and the19th century one, when the earlier work was subjective religious self introspection and the later is objective exploration of psyche, there is reason for the saiva schools to feel proud, for achieving it first and for ahead of the later. Though the methods were different it appear -as though- they are different visions of the same. If it happens to be the same, then that would be the end of the human journey.