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What (who) is Oedipean - definition
Oedipus complex
![Female Oedipus attitude: ''Electra at the Tomb of [[Agamemnon]]'', by [[Frederic Leighton]], (c.1869)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1869 Frederic Leighton - Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon.jpg?width=200 "Female Oedipus attitude: ''Electra at the Tomb of [[Agamemnon]]'', by [[Frederic Leighton]], (c.1869)")
![neurologist]] [[Sigmund Freud]] (at age 16) with his mother in 1872<ref>Peter Gay (1995) ''[[Freud: A Life for Our Time]]''</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AmaliaFreud.jpg?width=200 "neurologist]] [[Sigmund Freud]] (at age 16) with his mother in 1872<ref>Peter Gay (1995) ''[[Freud: A Life for Our Time]]''</ref>")
![The Electra complex: the [[matricide]]s Electra and Orestes.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Electra and Orestes - Project Gutenberg eText 14994.png?width=200 "The Electra complex: the [[matricide]]s Electra and Orestes.")
![[[Otto Rank]] on the far left, behind [[Sigmund Freud]], and other psychoanalysts (1922).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freud and other psychoanalysts 1922.jpg?width=200 "[[Otto Rank]] on the far left, behind [[Sigmund Freud]], and other psychoanalysts (1922).")
![''Oedipus and the Sphinx'', by [[Gustave Moreau]] (1864)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oedipus and the Sphinx MET DP-14201-023.jpg?width=200 "''Oedipus and the Sphinx'', by [[Gustave Moreau]] (1864)")
![[[Wilfred Bion]] (1916)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilfred Bion 1916.jpg?width=200 "[[Wilfred Bion]] (1916)")
CONCEPT OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; A CHILD'S UNCONSCIOUS SEXUAL DESIRE FOR THE OPPOSITE-SEX PARENT AND HATRED FOR THE SAME-SEX PARENT
Oedipal; Oedipal conflict; Oedipal complex; Oedipus conflict; Oidipal complex; Oedipean; Oedipean complex; Clitoris Envy; Oedipus Complex; Oedipus schema; Oedipal model; Oedipal fantasy; Pre-oedipal; Preoedipal; Pre-Oedipal; Mommy issues
¦ noun (in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.
Derivatives
Oedipal adjective
Oedipally adverb
Origin
early 20th cent.: by assoc. with Oedipus, who, in Greek mythology, unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
Oedipus complex
CONCEPT OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; A CHILD'S UNCONSCIOUS SEXUAL DESIRE FOR THE OPPOSITE-SEX PARENT AND HATRED FOR THE SAME-SEX PARENT
Oedipal; Oedipal conflict; Oedipal complex; Oedipus conflict; Oidipal complex; Oedipean; Oedipean complex; Clitoris Envy; Oedipus Complex; Oedipus schema; Oedipal model; Oedipal fantasy; Pre-oedipal; Preoedipal; Pre-Oedipal; Mommy issues
If a boy or man has an Oedipus complex, he feels sexual desire for his mother and has hostile feelings towards his father.
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