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Meanings of oedipus complex in anglès

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

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      complexo de édipo

      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.

            complexo de édipo
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            Examples for "Oedipal complex"
            Examples for "Oedipal complex"
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            Freud believed in universal human mental attributes -suchas the Oedipal complex.
            The Red Queen
            2
            Eyes, fire, secret black places, perhaps a touch of the old Oedipal complex.
            Demon bound
            3
            The family shrink couldn't diagnose an Oedipal complex in Oedipus.
            Reuters
            4
            Yu, who has an Oedipal complex, is love-struck because Yoko resembles his mother, whom he believes was the Virgin Mary.
            Reuters
            5
            It was a kind of Oedipal complex; Robert-Houdin was the spiritual father in the art and Houdini was his literal namesake.
            Hiding the Elephant
            Usage of oedipus complex in anglès
            1
            What's all this talk about sublimation and Oedipus complexes and penis envy?
            The new yorker
            2
            You don't have some kind of Oedipus complex or anything do you?
            Labor Day
            3
            His art has been described as a subtle depiction of the Oedipus complex.
            The new yorker
            4
            It is to do with the Oedipus Complex, he explains.
            The Irish Times
            5
            Your Oedipus complex is showing. He flicked her a grin.
            The witch queen
            6
            Later developments (such as the Oedipus Complex) are less crucial.
            The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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            Had Freud accepted his own hysteria, he would have interpreted the Oedipus complex in a different, and truer, way.
            The Irish Times
            8
            Her effective arguments are proposed through her assessment of Freud's evaluation of his own hysteria and the Oedipus complex.
            The Irish Times
            9
            The Oedipus complex, I mean.
            The Irish Times
            10
            The Œdipus complex, of course he would say it was; what matter, if he would let her talk about it?
            Dangerous Ages
            11
            Thus he recognized himself as his mother's son, but instinctively denied his father's paternal role, a textbook example of Freud's Oedipus complex.
            Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
            12
            But any talk of an " Oedipus complex" -when a male fancies his mother -was firmly booted into touch.
            News.com.au
            13
            Typical Oedipus complexes, with a fear of betrayal of the hate for the father and a consequent embarrassment of speech in his presence.
            The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
            14
            Thereafter all small boys necessarily had an Oedipus complex (pity about the girls, who had to be mashed into the theory somehow).
            The Guardian
            15
            "If it were against his father," P-867 argued, "this would be a more straightforward case of Oedipus complex.
            Level 7
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