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Oedipus complex

//ˈidəpəs ˈkɒmplɛks// noun

Noun

1
In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.
"He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today."
2
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

Named after Oedipus in Greek mythology, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.

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