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Oedipus complex

What is Oedipus complex?

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.

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my boyfrend suffers an oedipal complex. he is very inteligent, succsesfull in his bussines. he doesnt wont to see a therpist, thinking that his...

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I went through your details. I understand your emotions. Oedipus complex is a desire for sexual...

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the guy i know is really attached to his mother and always compares me with her..however he doesnt hates his father as mentioned in the oedipus...

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Idealisation of parental figure and internalising the primary care giver is quite a normal phenomenon in development of any person. From what you...

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