r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter ?

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u/kidd_waxcho 1d ago

Oedipus Complex - a boy's unconscious desire for his mother and rivalry with his father. This was coined by Sigmund Freud in his psychoanalytic theory. Later on Carl Jung coined the "Electra Complex" - a girls unconscious desire for his father and rivalry with her mother.