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Oedipus complex

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Oedipus complex Oedipal complex

Definition: 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

Definition: In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.

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