ELECTRACOMPLEX

Electra complex

In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a child’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; 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.

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