Oedipal complex
- a variation of Oedipus complex.
Example Sentences
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In any case, it’s a complex Oedipal complex, and the play’s navel-gazing doesn’t help.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
But if you worry that your therapist is judging you, that your therapist is doodling out of boredom, that your therapist is extrapolating an Oedipal complex from an offhand comment about your mom—relax.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2022
