Glossary C
Glossary C
Complex is defined as a group of associated feelings, thoughts, and memories that have intense emotional content. Complexes may have elements from a personal and collective unconscious. To Carl Jung, Complex is a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status. To Murray, it is a normal pattern of childhood development that influences the adult personality; childhood developmental stages include the claustral, oral, anal, urethral, and genital complexes.
Complex cell refers to cell type of the visual cortex that responds best to a light stimulus of a particular shape anywhere in its receptive field; its receptive field cannot be mapped into fixed excitatory and inhibitory zones Complex cell, moreover is a neuron in the visual cortex that responds best to moving bars with a particular orientation.
Complex partial seizure refers to a type of seizure that has an element of altered psyche or awareness in addition to sensory or motor components.