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Electra Complex

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Noun

1. electra complex

a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Electra Complex

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noun

psychoanalysis

the sexual attachment of a female child to her father

See also penis envy

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Electra Complex

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Psychoanalysis; Obsolete

the unconscious tendency of a daughter to be attached to her father and hostile toward her mother

see also Oedipus complex

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Electra Complex

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n.

In psychoanalysis, a daughter's unconscious libidinal desire for her father.

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