How to Use "Oedipus" with Example Sentences

2. The oedipus complex is a myth ; boys do not hate their fathers because they would like to have sex with their mothers .

3. We have indicated that there are problems with the oedipus complex as an explanation .

4. Freud , meanwhile , believed that the nuclear family was universal , and that the " primeval family , " riven by the oedipus complex , had been even more repressive than haute-bourgeois vienna .