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oedipus complex
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun oedipus complex has 1 sense
- oedipus complex(n = noun.feeling) oedipal complex - a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved; Array is a kind of complex
OXFORD DICTIONARY
oedipus complex, n. Psychol. (according to Freud etc.) the complex of emotions aroused in a young (esp. male) child by a subconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.
Derivative
Oedipal adj.
Etymology
Gk Oidipous, legendary king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother
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