oedipal in English

adjective

[oe·di·pal || ədɪpl /'ɪːdɪpl]

pertaining to Oedipus (Greek Mythology); pertaining to the Oedipal complex (Psychology)

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1. 14 Ralph mooned harder, with oedipal glee.

2. They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.

3. An Oedipal situation between one child and its parent may disrupt the whole complex of relationships within the family.

4. 25 In real life, positive and negative oedipal relations, and guilt about these relations often remain hidden behind sibling rivalry.

5. I think it's fair to say that the Electra complex was a sort of add- on to the main interest of Freud's Oedipal complex.

6. Essai sur l'Abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of Abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and