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adjective (often initial capital letter)
of, characterized by, or resulting from the Oedipus complex.
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World English Dictionary
| Oedipus complex | |
| —n | |
| psychoanal Compare Electra complex a group of emotions, usually unconscious, involving the desire of a child, esp a male child, to possess sexually the parent of the opposite sex while excluding the parent of the same sex | |
| 'oedipal | |
| —adj | |
| oedi'pean | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
oedipal
1939, "of or pertaining to desire felt for opposite-sex parent," from Oedipus complex (1910), coined by Freud from Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus," in which the title character, the Theban hero, answers the Sphinx's riddle and unknowingly kills his father and marries his own mother; from Gk.
EXPAND Oedipus. The name was used figuratively in English from 1550s for "one who is clever at guessing riddles," which had adj. form Oedipean (1620s).
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Medical Dictionary
oedipal oed·i·pal or Oed·i·pal (ěd'ə-pəl, ē'də-)
adj.
Of or characteristic of the Oedipus complex.
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