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Orestes complex

Orestes complex

in classical psychoanalysis, a son’s repressed impulse to kill his mother, which may result in the actual act of matricide. The name is derived from the Greek myth of Orestes, who killed his mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus.

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