If a boy or man has an Oedipus complex, he feels sexual desire for his mother and has hostile feelings towards his father.
Oedipus complex in British English
noun
psychoanalysis
a group of emotions, usually unconscious, involving the desire of a child, esp a male child, to possess sexually the parent of the opposite sex while excluding the parent of the same sex
Compare Electra complex
Derived forms
oedipal (ˈoedipal) or oedipean (ˌoediˈpean)
adjective
oedipally (ˈoedipally)
adverb
Oedipus complex in American English
Psychoanalysis
the unconscious tendency of a child to be attached to the parent of the opposite sex and hostile toward the other parent: its persistence in adult life results in neurotic disorders: orig. restricted to a son's attachment