psychoanalysis: Oedipus complex

The complex arising out of the child's wish to eliminate the parent of the same gender in order to possess the parent of the opposite gender.

Also: nuclear complex

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Analyze This Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow 1999

Knock on Wood Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling 1953

The Millionairess Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim 1960