COMPLEX

Complex

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.

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complex

Noun

  1. A problem.
  2. A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
  3. Assemblage of related things; collection.
  4. A psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
  5. A thunderstorm that forms when two storm fronts collide.
  6. A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.

Verb

  1. To form a complex with another substance

Adjective

  1. Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
    a complex being; a complex idea
  2. Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
  3. Of a number, of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is a square root of −1.
    complex function
  4. A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.


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