I know that there’s the Oedipus and Electra complexes, but is there a word or phrase that describes it when a son’s sexually attracted to his father, or a daughter’s sexually attracted to her mother?
Um, friggin’ nasty?
No, wait, that’s two words.
Deves.
Thanks guys. :rolleyes: But I was kind of hoping that there might be a medical term for this.
Well, according to this article by David Stevenson of Brown University, Freud was pretty much locked into the hetersosexual mindset. It does not seem to occur to Freud that one could have a fixation on the parent of the same sex. A search on Google on psychosexual development revealed only more of the same, and giving your thread title to Ask Jeeves brought up band names, for some reason. 
I get the impression it hasn’t been deeply investigated.
BTW, you might want to ask your doctor or counsellor that question.:eek:
I saw it on Jerry Springer-a woman making out with her adopted daughter. It was disgusting beyond words.
A misunderstanding here; the Oedipus complex is not a pathological condition wherein a son lusts after his mother. Rather, it’s is a hypothetical stage in normal development wherein…um, a son lusts after his mother and wants to kill his father. It’s not exactly lust, as the Oedipal child is around 3 years old; he spends the rest of his childhood “mastering” these feelings, and at sexual maturity is no longer supposed to feel them. Those who continue to have them, but repress them, are supposed to become neurotic. Some, fleeing from the incestuous desire, become homosexual (this is Freud talking, don’t blame me).
Freud calls the entire experience described above, with its attendant feelings and neuroses, as the Oedipus Complex. There would be no corresponding equivalent for same-sex parents, because that’s not a “normal” stage of development. Actual attraction, as an adult, for either of one’s parents does not have a name in Freudian psychology (nor, I think, anywhere else).
A quick google turned up: