Oedipus complex

Noun

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

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The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex. Sigmund Freud

I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers. Arnaud Desplechin

According to Freud, the Oedipus complex, was at the centre of neurosis, and was the foundational source of all art, myth, religion, philosophy, therapy—indeed of all human culture and civilization. Source: Internet

At the time at which the Oedipus complex gives place to the super-ego they are something quite magnificent; but later they lose much of this. Source: Internet

Freud depicted personality traits as being formed by family dynamics (see Oedipus complex ). Source: Internet

Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. Source: Internet

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