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From: Sabrina Kilian
Date: 22 Apr 2008 20:29:43
Message: <480e82f7@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:31:12 -0400, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at
> vtSPAM.edu"> wrote:
> 
>> John VanSickle wrote:
>>> Oedipus complex:  n.  A romantic attraction towards ones own parent of 
>>> the opposite sex.
>>>
>> Usually refers only to a male's attraction to his mother. A female's 
>> attraction to her father is an Electra complex.
> 
> Since we are showing off with our Greek. I point Andrew to the "Medea
> complex" if he wants to worry :)

I wasn't referring to Greek, but to Jungian psychology.

Freud used Oedipus to refer to both sexes of a child, but Freud. . . 
well, Freud was stoned.


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