Electra complex

In psychology, the Electra complex is also named after her.

This phenomena also occurs in girls, and is referred to by some as the Electra complex.

I wrote it off to your monstrous Electra complex."

Its female counterpart is called the Electra complex.

It is certainly far more than the Electra Complex purports to encompass.

It develops as a result of the Electra complex that brings the hatred of the mother and the father's love.

She has an Electra complex about the Senator, calling him "Daddy".

An especially cherished or spoiled daughter (see Electra complex)

Though not advocated by Freud himself, the term 'Electra complex' is sometimes used in this context.

(This is sometimes referred to as "the Electra Complex.")

"Electra Complex"

Key to the film is the concept of the Electra complex; a daughter's psychosexual competition with her mother for her father's affection.

"Then you possess the ultimate Electra complex, which you try to sublimate by helping to murder your heavenly Father."

Classic Oedipus and Electra complexes and sibling rivalry abounded.

She is nineteen years old and likes cherries, and is implied to have an Electra complex towards David.

This image of her mother had haunted Madonna for many years, and led her to comment that she never could resolve her Electra complex.

Later, the Electra complex was designated as a girl's sexual love for her father, in competi- tion with her mother.

He did not take other complexes into account except for the Electra complex, which he briefly spoke of (Carlini, 2005).

In the phallic stage, a girl's Electra complex is her decisive psychodynamic experience in forming a discrete sexual identity (ego).

To the point of jealous Timos suspecting Oedipus complex (actually Electra complex).

Freud rejected the idea of the Electra complex and was even monotonously vague about how the phallic stage of psychosexual development is resolved for girls.

The play can easily be read from a Freudian perspective, paying attention to various characters' Oedipus complexes and Electra complexes.

In conflating father and husband as one man, Sylvia Plath indicates their emotional equality in her life; the unresolved Electra complex.

Investigates the "feminine Oedipus attitude" and "negative Oedipus complex"; later the "Electra complex".