#complex (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
supertype: #feeling the state of experiencing affective and emotional states; "he had a feeling of euphoria"
subtype: #Oedipus_complex__Oedipal_complex a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved
subtype: #Electra_complex a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
subtype: #inferiority_complex__inferioritycomplex a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated
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