Father Complex

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father complex

Etymology: L, pater + complecti, to embrace

Usage notes: non-technical.

a repressed desire for an incestuous relationship with one's father.

Electra Complex

(1) The female counterpart of the Oedipus complex, in which a daughter perceives her mother as a rival and her father as the psychosexual source of nourishment
(2) An infrequently used term describing a pathologic relationship between a woman and a man based on unresolved developmental conflicts partially analogous to the Oedipus complex in a man

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