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complex adjective abstruse, bewildering, chaotic, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, difficult, elaborated, enigmatic, entangled, flexuous, impenetrable, implicated, inextricable, inscrutable, interlaced, interwoven, intricate, involuted, involved, irreducible, kaleidoscopic, knotted, labyrinthine, mingled, muddled, multiplex, obscure, perplexing, recondite, sinuous, snarled, tangled, tortuous, unarranged, unclassified, unfathomable, unorganized, varied
Associated concepts: complex issues to be tried

complex (Development), noun aggregate, association, collectivity, compages, composite, compound, conglomerate, conglomeration, group, network, organization, structure, system, totality, unity
Associated concepts: building complex, industrial complex, residential housing complex

complex (Entanglement), noun clutter, complexus, confusion, convolution, derangement, difficulty, disarray, disorder, disorganization, enmeshment, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, labyrinth, maze, muddle, multiplex, snag, snarl, tangle, twist

See also: abstruse, composite, compound, conglomerate, difficult, elaborate, inextricable, intricate, obscure, problematic, recondite, sinuous, sophisticated

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As the paintings derived from a castration complex, the sight of many people holding debagged metaphoric cock and balls was entirely appropriate.

Spiritual America: David Deitcher on pre-teen spirit by Deitcher, David / Artforum International

Freud links a mother's nostalgia for a closer relationship with her son to an incestuous male fantasy (as in the epigraph from "The Uncanny"), while "Lacan makes the castration complex for both men and women .

The mother that won't reflect back: situating psychoanalysis and the ... by Gribben, Bryn / MELUS

For this reason, argues Taylor, Freud's theory of the castration complex is inadequate for understanding any pre- or early modern reference to castration and its relation to sexual identity and culture.

Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood by Oldenburg, Scott / Renaissance Quarterly

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