complex

[boobesque]

oedipus=son-mother

electra=daughter-father

jocasta=mother-daughter

lear=father-daughter

are there terms for mother-daughter/daughter-mother and father-son/son-father?

thank you

[boobesque]

jocasta=mother-son

oops!

[Quizmonster]

How about 'inverse Electra' and 'inverse Oedipus' complexes? Is there any real need for these names, however? I ask because we could soon be into "What do you call a grandson's insatiable lust for his granny's cousin?"

[mimififi]

Hey Boobesque:

Im not sure that there are. i wonder if this is because at the time that these studies first started to be discussed and rediscussed through history etc, it was never considered a problem for a mother and daughter to be extremely close and reliant on one another. It was kind of accepted and almost expected. I don't think it was something that was ever considered. Perhaps there are so few cases of this, that it was never come across. It is interestingly the only combination that has no male influence in it so maybe that is the reason why (what with most pioneering pysches being male and all)

I dont' know for sure, just postulating.
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[whizzy2]

Quizmonster...... thats just pervy !! (isn't it?)

[Quizmonster]

And you think wanting to bed one's own daughter isn't, Whizzy?
Seriously, I was making a joke...can one say these two things together?...re granny's cousin, in order to make the point that one can expand such ideas on psychological complexes almost ad infinitum. The point is...is such expansion necessary?
Complex-names, as listed in the question, exist solely because such 'relationships' were dealt with in great works of Greek and English literature. Thus, psychiatrists had ready-made names for the complexes using the names of the characters involved in the stories.
I don't know...perhaps someone actually has written a great novel about a young man's sexual obsession with an aged relative. There is, of course, a general name for this which is 'gerontophily'. However, I've never heard of a specific character-based name for such a complex. And why? Perhaps because it is not required. Cheers