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Oedipus Complex

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Oedipus Complex - The First Time He Says It?

"I think that you made Oedipus a little bit spicier," he says. He mentions the story from the play Oedipu Tyranis and OedipUS killing his father, and then subsequently marrying his mother. "That is pretty clearly what we mean by the Oedipos complex." But he does not say the term 'Oedipus complex,' even though he's the person who invented it.

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