Electra complex
nounEtymology With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother.
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Human sciences, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sciences The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.
- "No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!"1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 234:
- Related terms
- Oedipus complex