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oedipal
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Word definitions for oedipal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative case form of Oedipal English)
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.