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What (who) is Electra complex - definition
Electra complex
![''Electra at the Tomb of [[Agamemnon]]'' by [[Frederic Leighton]], c. 1869](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1869 Frederic Leighton - Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon.jpg?width=200 "''Electra at the Tomb of [[Agamemnon]]'' by [[Frederic Leighton]], c. 1869")
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![[[Sylvia Plath]] employed the Electra complex in poetry](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvia Plath.jpg?width=200 "[[Sylvia Plath]] employed the Electra complex in poetry")
GENERALLY DEFINED AS THE GIRLS'S DESIRE TO POSSESS THE FATHER AND TO COMPETE WITH HER MOTHER FOR THE POSSESSION OF HER PARENT
Elektra complex; Daddy’s girl; Daddy's girl; Electra Complex; Daddy's little girl; Electra conflict
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.
Electra complex
GENERALLY DEFINED AS THE GIRLS'S DESIRE TO POSSESS THE FATHER AND TO COMPETE WITH HER MOTHER FOR THE POSSESSION OF HER PARENT
Elektra complex; Daddy’s girl; Daddy's girl; Electra Complex; Daddy's little girl; Electra conflict
¦ noun Psychoanalysis old-fashioned term for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls.
Origin
early 20th cent.: named after Electra in Greek mythology, who persuaded her brother to kill their mother in revenge for the murder of their father.
Daddy's Little Girl
GENERALLY DEFINED AS THE GIRLS'S DESIRE TO POSSESS THE FATHER AND TO COMPETE WITH HER MOTHER FOR THE POSSESSION OF HER PARENT
Elektra complex; Daddy’s girl; Daddy's girl; Electra Complex; Daddy's little girl; Electra conflict
"Daddy's Little Girl" is a classic song typically played at white weddings while a bride dances with her father. The song's lyrics and music were first written by Robert Harrison Burke and Horace Gerlach in 1949.
Examples of use of Electra complex
1. True, there is also such a phenomenon as the Electra complex among girls, but there is not yet a parallel for father–besotted daughters head–butting people who speak ill of their dads.