Oedipus complex

English Etymology Named after the hero Oedipus in Greek mythology, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Pronunciation en /ˈidəpəs ˈkɒmplɛks/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-Oedipus complex.wav US en /ˈɛdəpəs ˈkɒmplɛks/ Noun en psychoanalysis In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex. en 1957 S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman Cloudland Revisited: Vintage Swine The Road to Miltown: Or, Under the Spreading Atrophy A Touchstone Book 1st Touchstone paperback New York, N.Y. Simon and Schuster 1971 88 https://archive.org/details/roadtomiltownoru0000sjpe/page/88/mode/1up 978-0-671-21117-2 He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today. Derived terms en Oedipal Translations Freudian theory Armenian: hy էդիպյան բարդույթ Catalan: ca complex d'Èdip m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 戀母情結 liànmǔqíngjié Czech: cs oidipovský komplex m Danish: da ødipuskompleks n Esperanto: eo Edipa konflikto Finnish: fi oidipuskompleksi French: fr complexe d’Œdipe m German: de Ödipuskomplex m, de Ödipuskonflikt m Greek: el Οιδιπόδειο σύμπλεγμα n Irish: ga coimpléacs Éideapúis m Japanese: ja エディプスコンプレックス Edipusu-konpurekkusu Macedonian: mk Едипов комплекс m Norwegian: no ødipuskompleks Polish: pl kompleks Edypa m Portuguese: pt complexo de Édipo m Russian: ru эди́пов ко́мплекс m Spanish: es complejo de Edipo m Swedish: sv oidipuskomplex n Turkish: tr Ödipus karmaşası, tr Ödipus kompleksi, tr Ödipal karmaşa Yiddish: yi עדיפּוס קאָמפּלעקס m See also en Electra complex en Incest en eponyms terms derived from Greek mythology