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Electra complex
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Electra complex
In
Neo-Freudian
psychology
, the
Electra complex
, as proposed by
Carl Gustav Jung
, 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
; formation of a discrete sexual identity, a boy's analogous experience is the
Oedipus complex
. The Electra complex occurs in the third—phallic stage (ages 3–6)—of five
psychosexual development
stages: (i) the
Oral
, (ii) the
Anal
, (iii) the
Phallic
, (iv) the
Latent
, and (v) the
Genital
—in which the source
libido
pleasure is in a different
erogenous zone
of the infant’s body.
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