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Psychologist Verena Kast calls this first, pleasant, close bond with the mother the ‘positive mother complex’. There is also a corresponding ‘positive father complex’. According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a ‘complex’ arises from a meaningful interaction between two people. You probably know about the ‘inferiority complex’ that can develop when a person is systematically devalued by their environment. No person is worth ‘less’ than another, but when someone is told that they are a failure again and again, they eventually start to believe it. The opposite is also true.