| Electra complex |
a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
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| Electra complex |
In psychoanalytic theory, the female child's erotic desire for the father and simultaneous fear of the mother. It is the female analog to the Oedipal complex.
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| Electra c. |
the counterpart in females of the Oedipus complex, which was originally applied only to males, involving the daughter's love for her father and jealousy or resentment toward her mother; the term is now rarely used since Oedipus c. (q.v.) has come to be applied to both sexes.
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