OEDIPUS COMPLEX

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Oedipal complex; Oedipus complex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("Oedipus complex" is a kind of...):

complex ((psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior)

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