Alternative letter-case form of Oedipal. [(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.]
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oedipal
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for oedipal.
Editorial note
We are trying to protect everyone who´s offended to the point where society as a whole is slipping toward the Oedipal mother pathology.
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Quick take
Alternative letter-case form of Oedipal. [(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.]
Meaning at a glance
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(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for oedipal.
adjective
Alternative letter-case form of Oedipal. [(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.]
adjective
(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.
Example sentences
We are trying to protect everyone who´s offended to the point where society as a whole is slipping toward the Oedipal mother pathology.
Freud's theories are not provable or disprovable, if you want to kill your father you have an oedipal complex, if not you are repressing your oedipal complex.
Doesn't this suggest that cranks that post to arxiv are not driven by an Oedipal impulse?
Adding to your examples, there's tiger-mom type trauma (+Jewish variants of that) which has inherited the superficial respectability of Oedipal (neo-Bronze?
Totally reaching here, but the Oedipal tendency, obv in figurative sense, is strong in mothers.
I see the post modernist as almost an oedipal complex of a movement instead actually intellectual progress.
It's Freud telling me I am going after his theories because I am projecting and have an Oedipal Complex.
Maybe all that Oedipal stuff is just too embarrassing nowadays.
Today’s imposter is not subject to the Oedipal treadmill.
It's kind of interesting that you're claiming a slippery slope argument, when the words we use to describe incest Oedipal and Electra complex come from wildly popular pre-CE fictional accounts of incest.
It was a historic Aufhebung of Oedipal rebellion.
There's something distinctly Oedipal about that company.
Quote examples
Freud Oedipal complex theory may just be nonsciece but this Stanford prison "theory" is scientific, it's just scientific fraud.
Kohut's work was part of a body of work on "pre-Oedipal" phenomena which at the time people tried to trace to your relationship to your mother rather than the triangular family relationship.
> The Oedipal complex is not "true" or "false," it describes the universal process of socialization A description of a universal process is either false (the universal process does not exist as a universal process), or false (the universal process does exist but the description is inaccurate), or true (the universal process exists and the description is accurate).
My shrink pointed out in a conversation once as a tangent that Hamlet was not-so-subtly a psychoanalytic masterpiece: Hamlet watches his uncle carry out the Oedipal fantasy of killing his father and marrying his mother, and is haunted by a "ghost" to take action.
Proper noun examples
You might just want to use a different word than fascism, anti-Oedipal or otherwise.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use oedipal in a sentence?
We are trying to protect everyone who´s offended to the point where society as a whole is slipping toward the Oedipal mother pathology.
What does oedipal mean?
Alternative letter-case form of Oedipal. [(psychoanalysis) Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.]
What part of speech is oedipal?
oedipal is commonly used as adjective.