Definitions for electra complex
elec·tra com·plex

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1. Electra complexnoun

   a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father

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1. Electra complexnoun

   The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.

2. Etymology: With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother.

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1. Electra complex

   In neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung in his Theory of Psychoanalysis, is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex occurs in the third—phallic stage (ages 3–6)—of five psychosexual development stages: the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital—in which the source of libido pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant's body.In classical psychoanalytic theory, the child's identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Electra complex and of the Oedipus complex; his and her key psychological experience to developing a mature sexual role and identity. 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". The idea of the Electra complex is not widely used by mental health professionals today. There is little empirical evidence for it, as the theory's predictions do not match scientific observations of child development. It is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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1. electra complex

   The Electra Complex is a psychoanalytic theory introduced by Carl Jung that suggests a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father during the phallic stage of her psychosexual development, typically between the ages of three and six. This is seen as a female counterpart to Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex in boys. In the Electra complex, a girl directs her sexual feelings toward her father and sees her mother as competition.

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1. Electra complex

   In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex occurs in the third — phallic stage — of five psychosexual development stages: the Oral, the Anal, the Phallic, the Latent, and the Genital — in which the source libido pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant’s body. In classical psychoanalytic theory, the child's identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Electra complex and of the Oedipus complex; his and her key psychological experience to developing a mature sexual role and identity. 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 and homosexuality. 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" as revealed when the mate resembles the father or the mother.

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   The numerical value of electra complex in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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