ELECTRA COMPLEX


Meaning of ELECTRA COMPLEX in English

n. Psychol. a daughter's subconscious sexual attraction to her father and hostility towards her mother, corresponding to the Oedipus complex in a son.

[ Electra in Gk tragedy, who caused her mother to be murdered for having murdered Electra's father ]

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