See Also: Oedipal(dictionary)
oedipal(dictionary)
oedipal neurosis(medicine)
oedipal period(medicine)
oedipal phase(medicine)
pre-oedipal phase(medicine)
Oedipal stage(health)

Oedipal (iou)



Oedipal adjective. . M20.
[from OEDIPUS + -AL1.]
Psychoanalysis. Characterized by an Oedipus complex; of or pertaining to subconscious sexual desire felt by a child for a parent of the opposite sex, and conflict with the parent of the same sex.
New Left Review They interpreted the assassination in Oedipal terms, Trotsky being..the hated father-substitute.