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Meanings of Oedipal complex in English
Portuguese
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.
Usage of Oedipal complex in English
1
Freud believed in universal human mental attributes -suchas the Oedipal complex.
2
Eyes, fire, secret black places, perhaps a touch of the old Oedipal complex.
3
The family shrink couldn't diagnose an Oedipal complex in Oedipus.
4
Yu, who has an Oedipal complex, is love-struck because Yoko resembles his mother, whom he believes was the Virgin Mary.
5
It was a kind of Oedipal complex; Robert-Houdin was the spiritual father in the art and Houdini was his literal namesake.
6
However, should you fall foul of a zombie attack due to a buried Oedipal complex deep within your own subconscious, don't blame me.
7
You sincerely believe that these maniacs, and I use the term literally, will respond to your messing about with their oedipal complexes?