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What is the Oedipus complex as per psychoanalytic theory?

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What is the Oedipus complex as per psychoanalytic theory?

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The Oedipus complex refers to the unconscious and irrational desire of a young child to replace his/her same-sex parent and possessing the opposite sex parent.

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