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'''Electra complex''' is a term coined by [[Carl Jung]] to describe a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. It is a counterpart to [[Sigmund Freud]]'s concept of the [[Oedipus complex]]. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; a time when she has a sexual desire for her father.

== Origin of the term ==
The term was named after the Greek mythological figure [[Electra]], who plotted matricidal revenge with [[Orestes]], her brother, against [[Clytemnestra]], their mother, and [[Aegisthus]], their stepfather, for their murder of [[Agamemnon]], their father (Clytemnestra's husband), and who was later said to have suffered from melancholia (the mental illness which includes severe depression, extreme guilt, and suicide) as a result.

== Freud's view ==
[[Sigmund Freud]] instead proposed that girls and boys resolved their complexes differently—she via [[penis envy]], he via [[castration anxiety]]; and that unsuccessful resolutions might lead to neurosis. Hence, women and men who are fixated in the Electra and Oedipal stages of their psychosexual development might be considered "father-fixated" and "mother-fixated".

== Jung's view ==
[[Carl Jung]] proposed that both males and females could have both an Oedipus complex and an Electra complex, and that such complexes might be either positive or negative.

== Criticism ==
The Electra complex concept is criticized for assuming that girls’ psychosexual development must be defined in relation to boys’ psychology.

== See also ==
* [[Oedipus complex]]
* [[Psychosexual development]]
* [[Penis envy]]
* [[Castration anxiety]]

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[[Category:Freudian psychology]]
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