primal hordes

A form of primal horde — In Freudian psychoanalysis, an archetypal cathexis of the sons usurping their father's hierarchical position; the basis of the Oedipus complex, and sometimes resulting in totemism.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of primal horde
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