Oedipus complex definition

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noun

(1) 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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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