English Explanatory Dictionary

primal horde

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Freudian psychoanalysis, an archetypal cathexis of the sons usurping their father's hierarchical position; the basis of the Oedipus complex, and sometimes resulting in totemism.

Word forms

primal horde primal hordes
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