English Explanatory Dictionary

Jocasta complex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.

Word forms

Jocasta complex Jocasta complexes

Etymology

Introduced by Raymond de Saussure in 1920, after the character Jocasta from Greek mythology.

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