electra complex in English

noun
1
old-fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls.
Moreover, Glen's mother suffered from an Electra complex that ranged from extreme love, to extreme hatred, of her own father.

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1. The Electra complex is the penis envy story.

2. As women, especially advanced women, have intense Electra complex towards identification with time awareness, which comes from libido impulse from the deep heart.

3. I think it's fair to say that the Electra complex was a sort of add- on to the main interest of Freud's Oedipal complex.

4. Conclusion It is suggested that the origin of jealousy in the opinion of psychoanalytic theory is the oedipus complex(male) or Electra complex (famale) in everyone's unconscious.

5. And that story I told you with the penises and the penis envy and the replacement is sort of a very shortened version of the Electra complex.