Oedipus complexes
Oedipus complexes is the plural of Oedipus complex.
Meaning of Oedipus complex
Noun
Oedipus complex (plural Oedipus complexes)
- In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.
- He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today.1957, S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman, “Cloudland Revisited: Vintage Swine”, in The Road to Miltown: Or, Under the Spreading Atrophy (A Touchstone Book), 1st Touchstone paperback edition, New York, N.Y....
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- What is Oedipus complexes the plural of?
- Oedipus complexes is the plural of Oedipus complex.
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