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What (who) is Oedipus complex - 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.
N-SING
Oedipus (Seneca)
TRAGEDY BY SENECA
Oedipus (Seneca play)
Oedipus is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during the 1st century AD.
Wikipedia
Oedipus complex
thumb|[[Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805]]
Examples of use of Oedipus complex
1. But the Oedipus complex, one might well think, has another dimension.
2. Such is the Oedipus complex, provoking a neurotic desire that includes jealousy towards the father and the unconscious wish for his death.
3. Some of his signature work has inspired generations of comedians and cartoonists –– the Oedipus complex, penis envy, infantile sexuality, the anal phase, the meaning of dreams.
4. According to Freud‘s grandson, the Oedipus complex would never have been explored if he ‘had had, say, to take his daughter to her dancing classes‘. The world moves on, but modern motherhood remains uncherished.
5. You‘re anti–Semitic, and you behave toward the Jewish religion like the Nazis did to the Jews." Among the fair number of negative comments on the publisher‘s Web site was this÷ "This book traffics in disgusting stereotypes÷ ‘you [will] notice [he] has more body hair than a yak,‘... his ‘mom has worked very hard to mold him into the cutest little Oedipus complex...