A set of several units can form a complex. For example: a vacation or tourist complex.
The term complex , from the Latin complexus , refers to that which is made up of various elements . A complex is called the union of two or more things , the set of factories that are located close to each other and that is under the same technical and financial management and the set of facilities or buildings that are grouped together to develop a common activity. .
A complex, therefore, consists of several units . For example: “I have a reservation at a tourist complex facing the Caribbean Sea,” “The industrial complex in my city continues to grow and already occupies several hectares,” “Luciano's father has a hotel complex in Cancun.”
Complex is also something difficult, tangled, convoluted or complicated : “It's a complex problem, I don't think we can solve it in a few hours” , “Amanda is a complex person, you never know what she's thinking” , “The evaluation was so complex that only three students managed to pass.”
The term in psychology
For psychology , a complex is formed by a set of repressed emotions and ideas associated with the person's experiences.
These unconscious ideas disturb the behavior of the subject and influence their personality . The Oedipus complex and the Electra complex are some examples.
That which is complicated or difficult can be mentioned as complex.
The Oedipus complex
The first case mentioned, the Oedipus complex , we can say is one that causes a child, in the stage that goes from two to seven years old, to feel a normal and unconscious rejection towards his parent of the same sex. Thus, for example, there are children who feel attracted to their mother and reject, on the other hand, their father.
This translates into the aforementioned child being very possessive of his mother, demanding constant pampering as well as continuous attention. A fact that will even lead him to enter his parents' room without knocking with the clear objective of avoiding any type of intimacy between them. A circumstance that, with the passage of time, will disappear as the child in question identifies with the parent of the same sex.
The emotional attraction towards the mother
On the contrary, the aforementioned Electra complex is one that makes the girl feel an emotional attraction towards her father. This is not as palpable as Oedipus due to the simple circumstance that the little girls have such an emotional relationship with their mothers that they do not manage to establish this rejection or competitiveness with them in such an open way.
Between the ages of three and seven is when the aforementioned complex also takes place, which frequently leads the little girl in question to even express that she wants to marry her father. However, after that time it will disappear and the girl will begin another phase in which her mother is her role model.
Complex numbers and chemical complexes
A complex number is one that expresses the sum between a real number and an imaginary number.
In chemistry , finally, a complex is a molecular structure in which a metal atom or ion is surrounded by anions or molecules that are endowed with lone pairs.