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Oedipus complex

Also known as parentcest

concept of psychoanalytic theory; a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent

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The Oedipus complex is a concept from psychoanalytic theory describing an unconscious desire a child may have for the opposite-sex parent combined with rivalry or resentment toward the same-sex parent. Psychoanalysts have considered it important for understanding how childhood relationships shape personality and psychological development.

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The Oedipus complex: A confrontation at the central cross-roads of psychoanalysis.ReviewThe International journal of psycho-analysis · 2016Hartke RDOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12561
Freud's Clinical Theories Then and Now.Psychodynamic psychiatry · 2019Kupfersmid JDOI: 10.1521/pdps.2019.47.1.81
A Revision of Freud's Theory of the Biological Origin of the Oedipus Complex.ReviewThe Psychoanalytic quarterly · 2021Solms MDOI: 10.1080/00332828.2021.1984153
The Crises of Oedipus.The Psychoanalytic quarterly · 2023Goetzmann LDOI: 10.1080/00332828.2023.2187580
Oedipus and the Oedipus complex: A revision.The International journal of psycho-analysis · 2016Zepf S, Ullrich B, Seel DDOI: 10.1111/1745-8315.12278
"Incest--see under Oedipus complex": the history of an error in psychoanalysis.ReviewJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association · 1992Simon BDOI: 10.1177/000306519204000401
Oedipus.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 1976Medlicott RWDOI: 10.3109/00048677609159504
Thinking Forbidden Thoughts: The Oedipus Complex as a Complex of Knowing.Psychoanalytic review · 2016Schein MDOI: 10.1521/prev.2016.103.2.251

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time of discovery or invention: 1899-00-00

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Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805

In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. A daughter's attitude of desire for her father and hostility toward her mother is referred to as the feminine (or female) Oedipus complex. The general concept was considered by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), although the term itself was introduced in his paper "A Special Type of Choice of Object Made by Men" (1910).