Usually means: Attraction to parent, rivalry with.
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  1. oedipus complex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Oedipus complex, Oedipus complex: Merriam-Webster
  3. Oedipus complex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Oedipus complex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Oedipus complex: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Oedipus complex: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oedipus complex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Oedipus complex: Wiktionary
  9. Oedipus complex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Oedipus complex: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Oedipus complex: Dictionary.com
  12. Oedipus Complex, Oedipus complex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Oedipus complex: Rhymezone
  14. oedipus complex: FreeDictionary.org
  15. oedipus complex: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. Oedipus complex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  6. Oedipus complex: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Oedipus complex)

noun:  (psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.

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