oedipus complex in English

noun
1
(in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex. (The term was originally applied to boys, the equivalent in girls being called the Electra complex .).
The Oedipus complex is the psychoanalytic term everyone knows, and the ideas behind it were first mooted in 1899's The Interpretation of Dreams.

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1. Oedipus complex.

2. Chapter three explores the inevitability and social significance of Oedipus complex reflected in the play.

3. The concept of Oedipus Complex contains two paradoxical problems - the subject and the desire.

4. Unfortunately, fate did , Cao Guanghan Oedipus complex a couple of lines can not be real.

5. Through the growing process of children, they undergo the Oedipus complex, Abreacting their ego through the attachment to mother

6. The article gave a detail analysis on the depth psychology school' s contribution to the aesthetic from Freud's early theory "Oedipus Complex".

7. Kroeber, Malinowski and Roheim in criticizing Oedipus Complex further proved the existence of "family complex", and its relationship with society, life-form and culture.

8. Conclusion It is suggested that the origin of jealousy in the opinion of psychoanalytic theory is the oedipus complex(male) or Electra complex (famale) in everyone's unconscious.

9. So there is a certain pattern in--and of course, I invoke this pattern in arguing that Levi-Strauss's version of the Oedipus myth betrays his Oedipus complex in relation to Freud.