oedipal
Like certain complexes
Oedipal describes feelings or behavior involving a child's unconscious sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent—the pattern Freud called the Oedipus complex, after the mythical Greek king who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.
More loosely, oedipal suggests any fraught parent-child dynamic: Their relationship had an oedipal intensity.
Relations between kin
- forbiddenNot allowed
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- shamePainful awareness of failure
guilt · repression · unspoken · stigma · illicit · censure · perversion · repugnant
Classical Athenian playwright
- ThebesAncient city, two locations
- sphinxMysterious, unreadable person
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- prophecyForetelling of future events
Jocasta · patricide · fate · destiny · riddle · Greek tragedy · Antigone · Creon
Of unconscious-mind theory
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
- libidoInnate erotic drive
castration anxiety · psychosexual · fixation · identification · infantile · superego · ego · transference
Female parent, male offspring
- father-sonMale lineage pair
- parentalOf mothers and fathers
- triangularThree-cornered in form
- kinshipState of being related
filial · patriarchal · matriarchal · rivalry · attachment · bonding · nuclear family · possessiveness
incest
Relations between kin
- forbiddenNot allowed
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
shame · guilt · repression · unspoken · stigma · illicit · censure · perversion · repugnant · anathema
Sophocles
Classical Athenian playwright
- ThebesAncient city, two locations
- sphinxMysterious, unreadable person
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
Jocasta · prophecy · patricide · fate · destiny · riddle · Greek tragedy · Antigone · Creon · Tiresias
Freudian
Of unconscious-mind theory
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- psychoanalysisTreatment via unconscious exploration
libido · castration anxiety · psychosexual · fixation · identification · infantile · superego · ego · transference · neurosis
mother-son
Female parent, male offspring
- father-sonMale lineage pair
- parentalOf mothers and fathers
- triangularThree-cornered in form
kinship · filial · patriarchal · matriarchal · rivalry · attachment · bonding · nuclear family · possessiveness · jealousy
oedipalElectra
Mythic Greek princess
resolved · individuated · Electra complex · differentiated · autonomous
- Oedipus complexPsychosexual attachment to mother
- Oedipal complexSon's unconscious maternal desire
- Oedipus RexAncient drama of prophecy fulfilled
- Oedipus complexesUnconscious maternal romantic attraction