concepts
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member: oedipal conflict

gender identities and roles
type: Concept
narrower: oedipal conflict

oedipal conflict
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broader: gender identities and roles
definition: The term Oedipus conflict, or Oedipus complex, refers to a theory developed by Sigmund Freud (based on an ancient Greek myth) as a way of explaining child development; that is, Freud wanted to understand the way, as a boy, he had felt toward his parents. Freud first suggested the existence of what he would later call the Oedipus complex in his seminal The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Oedipal Conflict]