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Psychoanalysts see personality disorders as resulting from

A) the failure to resolve the Oedipal or Electra complex.
B) disturbances in the parent-child relationship.
C) failure to use adequate defense mechanisms.
D) penis envy (in women only) .
E) unsatisfied oral needs during infancy.

Oedipal

Relating to the Oedipus complex, a concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Electra Complex

The condition in which, according to Sigmund Freud, girls want to seduce their fathers to gain what they truly desire: a penis. By analogy to a character in several Greek tragedies.

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