What Is the Oedipus Complex?
10. The Electra Complex
When mentioning the Oedipus complex, you might also sometimes be reminded of the Electra complex. The Electra complex is very similar to the Oedipus complex, except for one very significant difference. Instead of it being a matter of boys being attracted to the mothers, it is girls being attracted to their fathers.
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It is often thought the Freud coined the term, but that credit actually goes to another famous psychiatrist, Carl Jung. The condition is again named after a Greek mythological character Electra. Electra and her brother plotted to kill their mother, Clytemnestra, and their stepfather, Aegisthus, for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.
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