Famous Complexes in Psychology - Statistics

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Description Complex % Correct
Freud: A child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent (Clue: King of Thebes) {Oedipus}
91%
Describe a particular type of overambitious character, one who tries to "fly too high" (Clue: Son of Daedalus) {Icarus}
74%
Popular psychology concept of an adult who is socially immature and doesn't want to grow up (Clue: Fictional character) {Peter} {Pan}
64%
Inferiority complex normally attributed to people of short stature {Napoleon}
55%
Psychological complex revolving around the petrification or freezing of human emotion (Clue: Gorgon) {Medusa}
52%
Women's fear of independence; an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others (Fairy tale character) {Cinderella}
49%
Jung: A girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father (Clue: Agamemnon's daughter) {Electra}
42%
A state of mind in which an individual holds a belief that they are destined to become a savior today or in the near future {Messiah}
40%
Psychological phenomenon where someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed (Clue: Hector's sister) {Cassandra}
37%
The desire, in a man, to have sex with many different female partners (Clue: Spanish libertine) {Don} {Juan}
33%
Where a person creates a harmful situation so that they can be the one to resolve it (eg. a firefighter starts a fire) {Hero}
27%
Mental disorder in which even muscular people want more muscles (aka muscle dysmorphia) (Clue: Aphrodite's mortal lover) {Adonis}
25%
An unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility {God}
24%
Defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with painful feelings of inferiority. Individuals typically come across as supercilious, haughty, and disdainful toward others. {Superiority}
24%
The incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son (Clue: Queen of Thebes) {Jocasta}
13%
The sexual desire of a stepmother for her stepson (Clue: The wife of Perseus) {Phaedra}
3%
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