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Meanings of oedipus complex in English
Concept of psychoanalytic theory; a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent.
Related terms
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.
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Examples for "Oedipal complex"
Examples for "Oedipal complex"
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.
Usage of oedipus complex in English
1
What's all this talk about sublimation and Oedipus complexes and penis envy?
2
You don't have some kind of Oedipus complex or anything do you?
3
His art has been described as a subtle depiction of the Oedipus complex.
4
It is to do with the Oedipus Complex, he explains.
5
Your Oedipus complex is showing. He flicked her a grin.
6
Later developments (such as the Oedipus Complex) are less crucial.
7
Had Freud accepted his own hysteria, he would have interpreted the Oedipus complex in a different, and truer, way.
8
Her effective arguments are proposed through her assessment of Freud's evaluation of his own hysteria and the Oedipus complex.
9
The Oedipus complex, I mean.
10
The Œdipus complex, of course he would say it was; what matter, if he would let her talk about it?
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.
12
But any talk of an " Oedipus complex" -when a male fancies his mother -was firmly booted into touch.
13
Typical Oedipus complexes, with a fear of betrayal of the hate for the father and a consequent embarrassment of speech in his presence.
14
Thereafter all small boys necessarily had an Oedipus complex (pity about the girls, who had to be mashed into the theory somehow).
15
"If it were against his father," P-867 argued, "this would be a more straightforward case of Oedipus complex.
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