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Categories: Freudian psychology, Complex (psychology), Psychoanalytic terminology, Incest, Phrases and idioms derived from Greek mythology

Oedipus complex Oedipal complex Pre-oedipal Clitoris Envy Oedipal

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 WordNet 3.0

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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. Wikipedia

A psychological theory Wikipedia Disambiguation

Concept of psychoanalytic theory; a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent Wikidata

Freudian theory. Wiktionary (translation)

In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex. Wiktionary

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