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Oedipus complex

ˈɛdɪpəs ˈkɑmplɛks
WordNet
  1. (n) Oedipus 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
Usage in the news

Will Mitt's Budget Ax Have An Oedipus Complex. tnr.com

This statement by the philosopher Jonathan Lear captures the rebellious aim of Oedipus ' newest analysts: they want Oedipus to lose his complex. nytimes.com

Usage in literature

If there was an Oedipus complex or anything of that sort in my case it has been very completely washed out again. "The Secret Places of the Heart" by H. G. Wells

The Oedipus complex, of course he would say it was; what matter, if he would let her talk about it? "Dangerous Ages" by Rose Macaulay

It is part of the unresolved Oedipus complex. "A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis" by Melvin Powers

The oedipus complex in a curious form. "The Ideal" by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

There was a lot of jabber one place about the "Oedipus Complex," for example, but he didn't connect at all. "The Book of Susan" by Lee Wilson Dodd

It plays a part in the early history of the Oedipus complex. "Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego" by Sigmund Freud

One cannot maintain that the world was very grateful to psychoanalytic research for its discovery of the Oedipus-complex. "A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis" by Sigmund Freud