In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first...

Oedipus (UK: /ˈiːdɪpəs/, also US: /ˈɛdɪ-/ ; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology...

psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex occurs in the third—phallic...

mythologic character Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and sexually possessed his mother. Initially, Freud applied the Oedipus complex to the development...

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix...

1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, including...

Oedipus complex is utilized in the understanding and mastery of religious beliefs. In Freud's psychosexual stages, he mentioned the Oedipus complex and...

Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King,...

sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams...

theory as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex. The feminine Oedipus complex has its roots in the little girl's discovery that she...

term, for women, would be a father complex. In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes a child's desire to have sexual...

envy for the girl. Freud argued that the castration complex is closely linked to the Oedipus Complex, especially with its prohibitive and normative function...

(depressive position) era.[citation needed] His paper of the waning of the Oedipus Complex is considered particularly illuminating. Both Loewald and Freud considered...

My Oedipus Complex may refer to: "My Oedipus Complex", a short story written by Frank O'Connor "My Oedipus Complex", one of a number of singles in the...

the father complex, and in particular ambivalent feelings for the father on the part of the male child, as an aspect of the Oedipus complex. By contrast...

helplessness of the child and the Oedipus complex. In the case of the little boy, it forms during the dissolution of the Oedipus complex, through a process of identification...

the Oedipus complex in which the phallic conflict arises for males, as well as for females. Though Carl Jung made the distinction between the Oedipus complex...

classical model of gender and identity development, which centers on the Oedipus complex. Freud's model, which became integral to orthodox psychoanalysis, suggests...

resistance, the appreciation of the importance of sexuality and of the Oedipus complex." Freud's earlier colleagues Alfred Adler and Carl Jung soon developed...

explains Hamlet's mysterious procrastination as a consequence of the Oedipus Complex: the son continually postpones the act of revenge because of the impossibly...

psychological theories, he named the "Oedipus complex", and, at one point, he considered calling it the "Hamlet complex". Freud considered that Hamlet "is...

The apprentice complex is a psychodynamic constellation whereby a boy or youth resolves the Oedipus complex by an identification with his father, or father...

Jung's thought posits several different kinds of complex. Freud only focused on the Oedipus complex which reflected developmental challenges that face...

Age disparity in sexual relationships Cougar (slang) Gerontophilia Oedipus complex "MILF, Definition of MILF in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford...

and Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. The term is a play on the "Oedipus complex" of psychoanalytic theory. While earlier use of the term elsewhere...

Oedipus Rex (Edipo re) is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written...

The missing link: Parental sexuality in the Oedipus complex. In: Steiner, J. (ed.), The Oedipus Complex Today (Chapter 2, pp. 83–101). London: Karnac...

Lacan emphasised instead the importance of the third party in the Oedipus complex – what he called "the place that she [the mother] reserves for the...

which included incestuous themes. Brother complex Oedipus complex Electra complex Jocasta complex Father complex Mother's boy Incest Hodgkins, Crystalyn...

He also proposed the concepts of psychosexual development and the Oedipus complex, among other theories. Gender identity is a person's sense of their...