father complex
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The trouble with J was that he had a bloody father complex.

However, he seemed to have some problems with father complex, close relationships and alcohols.

The notion of the "Father complex" still flourishes in the culture at large.

I suddenly began to wonder how much of Judie's reactions were due to a father complex.

She has an incredible father complex and wants to become his bride when she grows up.

So I had a typical classical father complex.

Freud and Jung both used the father complex as a tool to illuminate their own personal relations.

She did not have a father complex, but in common with her sisters she knew exactly what her father was.

She is overjoyed when Mikuru displays an interest in boys and is possibly over her father complex.

Does she sense nobility in Mazeppa, or is she an impulsive adolescent with a father complex?

For me, I surmised from my psychotherapy high horse, the issue was about loneliness and, therefore, about some childhood father complex.

Kotomi has a father complex and tells Naoki that she wants to marry him when she grows up.

They also applied a similar analysis to a woman with a negative father complex, for whom resistance to a man's suggestions and male authority can become endemic.

By contrast, Carl Jung took the view that both males and females could have a father complex, which in turn might be either positive or negative.

"With an older man, there is the Pygmalion syndrome; there is power, money, perhaps a father complex," she said, her son now out of earshot.

I know this idiot girl who keeps telling me I ought to go to a head-shrinker; she says I have a father complex.

However, D. H. Lawrence dismissed the idea of the father complex (in his case) as a fool's complex.

Bob Dylan's choice of pseudonym has been linked to the father complex, as a rejection of his actual father and his paternal name.

Darling, I wouldn't have gone for you if I didn't have a hefty father complex, would I?'

For example, Czeslaw Milosz noted wrote of Einstein, "everything about him appealed to my father complex, my yearning for a protector and leader".

She admitted she had a "father complex", explaining it by saying, "Having been brought up without him and then coming back and finding him so sympathetic had a powerful effect".

In one, Phaeton (Doug Hara), son of the Sun, lies on a floating yellow air mattress as he explains his father complex to a therapist (Lisa Tejero).

Father complex in psychology is a complex - a group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulses - which specifically pertains to the image or archetype of the father.

In a more critical judgement, linking his obsessive father complex to his ambivalent search for a psychoanalytic master, she also considered him to have frittered away his career "between presumptiousness and aimlessness".

She remarked, "I was talking to my sister on the phone about how sometimes girls with daddy issues don't find men like that!"

There must be more productive ways she can iron out her daddy issues.

What we learned, not surprisingly, is that like every other major character on "Lost," he's got some big daddy issues.

Matt was a good cook but the daddy issues wore thin after a while.

But who would be a good match for an abomination of science with no name and serious daddy issues?

If you really want a show about daddy issues, try The Flash.

Lesbians have daddy issues or were sexually abused as kids.

That Dawkins guy is a real jerk with serious daddy issues.

I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.

Jack will never get over his daddy issues.

It is hinted that because of this, Jenna has developed "daddy issues".

Seriously, you have to go back to Hamlet to find a story with bigger Daddy issues.

But I wasn't some gold digger trying to claw at his cash account, or even a woman with daddy issues.

(There’s a whole raft of daddy issues going on here.)

But more important, for the producer Margaret Grossi, they all had daddy issues.

I understand the ennui at Jack's daddy issues but at least they are grounded in reality.

It has just become an excuse for unhinged individuals with Daddy issues to indulge a mean streak"."

But he could also wow her with wild acts of generosity that played right into her Daddy issues.

She has major daddy issues and a confused sense about if her sexuality is empowering or her only tool.

Daddy issues that our protagonist (s) must confront?

This draws the ire of Jeff, who inadvertently exposes his own "daddy issues".

A local activist who has "daddy issues".

“Thor is really no different than the average rebellious teenager with daddy issues,” according to DeSanto.

She has major daddy issues.