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Electra|ɪˈlɛktrə|
Name in Greek tragedy of the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, responsible for the murder of the latter, used attrib., esp. in Electra complex, a term used by psychoanalysts to denote a daughter's feelings of attraction towards her father and hostility towards her mother.
1913[see complex n. 3]. 1927B. Malinowski Sex & Repression in Savage Society i. viii. 65 This is the configuration of the Electra complex; it is therefore of an entirely different nature from the Oedipus complex. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 58 This is the Oedipus situation... Its female counterpart is called the Electra situation, but this appears a rather less powerful and significant event in the life of the girl. |