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.

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

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.