Usually means: Early childhood, before Oedipus complex.
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▸ adjective:  (psychoanalysis) Before the formation of the Oedipus complex.

Similar:
preoral, pregenital, prepersonal, prematernal, preambivalent, preparental, precoitional, prelogical, prepsychotic, prepatriarchal, more...

Opposite:
post-oedipal, non-oedipal, anti-oedipal

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Similar:
preoral, pregenital, prepersonal, prematernal, preambivalent, preparental, precoitional, prelogical, prepsychotic, prepatriarchal, more...

Opposite:
post-oedipal, non-oedipal, anti-oedipal



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