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Complex type
Answer for the clue "Complex type ", 7 letters:
oedipal
Alternative clues for the word oedipal
- Like some complexes
- Like a certain Freudian complex
- Child development stage, per Freud
- A kind of complex
- Like a certain complex
- Like much of Norman Bates's motivation
- Like a psychological complex
- Kind of complex reference work, one on China
- Like some unhealthy relationships
- Like a boy desiring his mother
Usage examples of oedipal.
The text also represses homoerotic and oedipal desire and connects the two.
His psyche lacks the Oedipal identification with the father, the mark of symbolic castration.
Oedipal complexes, neuroses, guilt for onanistic abuse expressed by gambling bouts, sado-masochistic drives, and other fascinating finds.
In for instance an analytic model, the types of traumas counterphobic reactions cover are almost always pre-Oedipal, at which stage objects' cathexis is Oedipal and symbolic.
The discussion turned on how Zoe's alcohol and drug abuse was a symptom of deep depression which was in turn a symptom of deeper childhood conflicts--our old friend the Oedipal Oscillator, whatever that was.
Unfortunately, this factor in his personality, which he might have sublimated harmlessly by becoming a social worker, was complicated by unresolved Oedipal hostilities and a reaction formation in favor of 'spying,' which led him to become a policeman.