Oedipal complex

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Oedipal complex - a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved

Oedipus complex

complex - (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

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