(n)(Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles, Syn.Oedipus Rex, King Oedipus
(n)a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved, Syn.Oedipal complex