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Oedipus complex concept

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The Oedipus complex concept, proposed by Sigmund Freud, is a psychoanalytic theory that suggests children experience unconscious sexual desires for the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent. It occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.

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