Oedipus complex
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Oed·i·pus com·plex
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n. Psychoanalysis
(in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex. (The term was originally applied to boys, the equivalent in girls being called the Electra complex.)
DERIVATIVES:
Oed·i·pal
/ -pəl/ adj.
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Oedipus Complex.(Theater review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety; 5/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean...approach to deliver it. It's "Oedipus" anesthetized. Galati...of public dreaming. This "Oedipus" is indeed complex, cerebral and very interesting...
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The split personality of 'Oedipus Complex'.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 5/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...When Sigmund Freud articulated his Oedipus complex -- wherein a boy feels his first...stage a production of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" inside, as it were...Shakespeare Festival to direct "Oedipus," the play. But Galati went...
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Dr. Freud, I presume? A pair of piercing new dramas are steeped in Freudian thought.(Critic's Notebook)(Oedipus Complex)(Singing Forest)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...bold new theory of the Oedipal complex in a lecture to fellow physicians...fixation in Frank Galati's Oedipus Complex, at the Oregon Shakespeare...American family. And in Oedipus Complex, Dr. Freud yields...from the Sophocles tragedy Oedipus Rex. Neither of these world...
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COLUMN: The Oedipus complex: A maternal affair
News Wire article from: University Wire; 4/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...that sounds? I know about this Oedipus complex brouhaha, and just because one...When I first heard about this Oedipus complex I was very confused...made me happy. To add more to the Oedipus ridiculousness, Freud says I am...
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Panel II: The Oedipus Complex, the Primal Scene, and the Superego
Magazine article from: Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Question 1: The idea of the Oedipus complex is central to both Freudians and...panelists to talk about the timing of Oedipus, the role of the parental couple...Steve Ellman The idea of the Oedipus complex is not as central to this...
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A window to fractured psyches; Riveting 'Oedipus Complex' forces us to acknowledge our twisted urges
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; 'OEDIPUS COMPLEX' highly Recommended When: Through June...director Frank Galati's fascinating "Oedipus Complex" -- which opened Monday at...by way of Sophocles' Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex," in which a man is fated to murder...
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Psychiatrist puts Jesus on the couch A controversial study claims that Christ had an Oedipus complex, reports Clare Garner
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...human that he suffered from an Oedipus complex, went through a stage of adolescent...in which the resolution of the Oedipus complex allows a boy to withdraw...satisfactory completion of the Oedipus complex". And Jesus survived...
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Oedipus complex: Bush using Iraq to remove himself from father's shadow
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 6/30/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...his Interpretation of Dreams, Freud positioned the Oedipus complex as the primary dynamic in the male persona. It is...His hesitation underscores the second part of the Oedipus complex which is that the Oedipal feelings are largely repressed...
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When did you last be your father? It was Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, who first identified the Oedipus complex. This is a stage of young men's development named after a Greek myth in which the hero murders his father and marries his mother.
Newspaper article from: Grimsby Telegraph; 10/5/2007; 660 words
; ...psychoanalysis, who first identified the Oedipus complex. This is a stage of young men...and away support. But it's the Oedipus thing that crops up again and again...sitting in the dug-out. So if the Oedipus myth is all about men growing up...
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A Story of Her Own: The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed
Magazine article from: International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 10/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; A Story of Her Own: The Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed by Nancy Kulish and Deanna...functions and the view of the superego as 'heir to the Oedipus complex' " (p. 125). However, they view the Oedipal...
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Oedipus Complex, Early
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
OEDIPUS COMPLEX, EARLY Underlying the Oedipus complex as Freud described it, there is an earlier layer...the depressive position marks the transition from the early Oedipus complex to the mature stage and results in an increasing respect...
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Oedipus Complex
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
OEDIPUS COMPLEX The term Oedipus complex designates...is noteworthy, however, that the Oedipus complex made no explicit appearance in Three...Rat Man" (1909d), the role of the Oedipus complex, though evident, was veiled. By...
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Oedipus complex
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oedipus complex Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus , designating attraction on the part of the child toward...approximately years three to five. Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by identification with the...
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Counter-Oedipus
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...COUNTER-OEDIPUS The term "counter-Oedipus" generally designates the complete...discussed how parents replay their infantile Oedipus complex in the present, yet he never used the term "counter-Oedipus" to refer to these displays. In 1979...
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...xE9; lix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia...its publication in 1972, Anti-Oedipus had an explosive impact. In a...work between the two of us". The Oedipus complex, which psychoanalysts describe...
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