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Meanings of Oedipus complex in inglés

ruso
эдипов комплекс
portugués
edipico
español
complejo de edipo
catalán
complex d'èdip
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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.

Related terms
complejo de edipo
portugués
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
Usage of Oedipus complex in inglés
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You don't have some kind of Oedipus complex or anything do you?
Labor Day
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His art has been described as a subtle depiction of the Oedipus complex.
The new yorker
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Your Oedipus complex is showing. He flicked her a grin.
The witch queen
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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
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Her effective arguments are proposed through her assessment of Freud's evaluation of his own hysteria and the Oedipus complex.
The Irish Times
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The Oedipus complex, I mean.
The Irish Times
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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
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But any talk of an " Oedipus complex" -when a male fancies his mother -was firmly booted into touch.
News.com.au
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Thereafter all small boys necessarily had an Oedipus complex (pity about the girls, who had to be mashed into the theory somehow).
The Guardian
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What's all this talk about sublimation and Oedipus complexes and penis envy?
The new yorker
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It is to do with the Oedipus Complex, he explains.
The Irish Times
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Later developments (such as the Oedipus Complex) are less crucial.
The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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The Œdipus complex, of course he would say it was; what matter, if he would let her talk about it?
Dangerous Ages
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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
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"If it were against his father," P-867 argued, "this would be a more straightforward case of Oedipus complex.
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Translations for Oedipus complex