matricide
Killing one's mother
Matricide is the killing of one's own mother, or a person who commits this act.
The word carries the weight of its transgression—violating both law and the most fundamental human bond.
Orestes committed matricide to avenge his father's murder.
The term appears most often in literary, legal, or psychiatric contexts.
Tragic Greek king
- ElectraMythic Greek princess
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
- complexHaving many interconnected parts
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
unconscious · repression · taboo · ambivalence · neurosis · psychosexual · superego · id
Deliberate unlawful killing
- felonySerious criminal offense
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- filicideMurdering one's own child
- manslaughterUnlawful killing without forethought
premeditation · prosecution · conviction · defendant · forensics · incarceration · penalty · guilt
Cruel or violent treatment
- neglectFailure to provide care
- dysfunctionAbnormal or unhealthy operation
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- resentmentPersistent bitter displeasure
rage · conflict · violence · domestic · betrayal · rejection · abandonment · toxicity
Oedipus
Tragic Greek king
psychoanalysis · unconscious · repression · taboo · ambivalence · neurosis · psychosexual · superego · id · psyche
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- felonySerious criminal offense
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
- filicideMurdering one's own child
manslaughter · premeditation · prosecution · conviction · defendant · forensics · incarceration · penalty · guilt · malice
abuse
Cruel or violent treatment
- neglectFailure to provide care
- dysfunctionAbnormal or unhealthy operation
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
resentment · rage · conflict · violence · domestic · betrayal · rejection · abandonment · toxicity · generational
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
revulsion · disbelief · devastation · numbness · despair · distress · appalled · stunned · overwhelmed · heartbreak
- ParricidesLizzie Borden, Orestes, Oedipus, Nero
- -cide wordsfungicide, herbicide, insecticide, pesticide, bactericide
- historical crimestreason, heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, piracy
- murdermanslaughter, assassination, premeditated murder, serial killing, mass murder
- NeroAgrippina, Seneca, Octavia, Christian persecution
- fatal causesdrowning, electrocution, suffocation, poisoning, stabbing
matricidepatricide
Murder of one's father
filicide · infanticide · fratricide · sororicide · parricide