In psychoanalytical theory, the female child's erotic desire for the father and simultaneous fear of the mother. The female analogy of the Oedipal complex. Or one bloody good reason to go to a psychiatrist, pervert
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.
the unconscious tendency of a daughter to be attached to her father and hostile toward her mother.
a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
The Freudian concept that a young girl will be sexually attracted to her father, while hostile toward her mother.
The Electra complex is an ambiguous psychiatric concept which attempts to explain the maturation of the human female. Freud's research on female psychology, sexuality in particular, was limited by social conventions of gender and class; women were considered the 'second-sex' and many of his female patients were labeled 'degenerates.'1 The Electra complex was created as the female counterpart to the Oedipus complex in males. Its name comes from the Greek myth of Electra, who wanted her brother to avenge their father Agamemnon's death by killing their mother Clytemnestra.
