1. a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved; [syn: Oedipus complex, Oedipal complex]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Oedipal complex
n 1: a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually
and to exclude the father; said to be a source of
personality disorders if unresolved [syn: Oedipus
complex, Oedipal complex]