Famous Complexes in Psychology

A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status. Primarily a psychoanalytic term, it is found extensively in the works of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Name these psychological complexes, given the clues.

A lot of them are named after characters from mythology or stories.

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Description	Complex
Inferiority complex normally attributed to people of short stature	Napoleon complex
Freud: A child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent	Oedipus complex
Jung: A girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father	Electra complex
An unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility	God complex
Where a person creates a harmful situation so that they can be the one to resolve it (eg. a firefighter starts a fire)	Hero complex
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 complex
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 complex
The sexual desire of a stepmother for her stepson	Phaedra complex
The incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son	Jocasta complex

Description	Complex
The desire, in a man, to have sex with many different female partners	Don Juan complex
Women's fear of independence; an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others	Cinderella complex
Psychological phenomenon where someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed	Cassandra complex
Popular psychology concept of an adult who is socially immature (doesn't want to grow up)	Peter Pan complex
Describe a particular type of overambitious character, one who tries to "fly too high"	Icarus complex
Psychological complex revolving around the petrification or freezing of human emotion	Medusa complex
Mental disorder in which even muscular people want more muscles (aka muscle dysmorphia)	Adonis complex

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