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OEDIPUS COMPLEX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Oedipal complex; Oedipus complex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("Oedipus complex" is a kind of...):
complex ((psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior)
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