Definition Oedipus complex in American English

Oedipus complex noun

[countable] noun

/ˈedɪpəs ˌkɑmpleks/

From the ancient Greek story of Oedipus who, without realizing what he was doing, killed his father and married his mother.

an unconscious sexual feeling that a son has toward his mother, at the same time hating his father

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