Oedipus complex
Oedipal complex

"Does it have something to do with that which is referred to as the Oedipal complex?"

Chodorow sees gender differences as compromise formations of the Oedipal complex.

So, the book turned into the history of my Oedipal complex, trying to climb out from under Mom.

"Maybe it's a mummy, maybe it's a slight Oedipal complex."

Unresolved Oedipal complexes or something bizarre like that.

For Freud the answer was in the Oedipal complex and the little girl's realization that she is, as he put it, a failed boy.

Would Freud have called it a kind of Oedipal complex?

The younger chess player's attempt to kill the older player's king is analogous to the Oedipal complex.

The poor fellow is so lost in his Oedipal complex that he can't find his way to matrimony with the eager blonde.

The deep conflict being rehearsed and resolved in these movies is that of the Oedipal complex".