Jocasta complex
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In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel
Oedipus complex
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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual desire for his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual devel
Jocasta complex
…desire of a mother towards her son. Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, including domineering but asexual mother love – something perhaps particularly prevalent…
Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805
Sigmund Freud (age 16) with his mother in 1872
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau (1864)
Otto Rank on the far left, behind Sigmund Freud, and other psychoanalysts (1922)