noun
Psychoanalytic term for a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and rivalry with the same-sex parent. In Japanese, often used in discussions of Freudian theory.
フロイトはエディプスコンプレックスを提唱した。
Freud proposed the Oedipus complex.
彼の行動はエディプスコンプレックスで説明できるかもしれない
His behavior might be explained by the Oedipus complex.