Electra complex

noun

🔊/ɪˈlektrə kɒmpleks/

🔊/ɪˈlektrə kɑːmpleks/

[singular] (psychology心理)

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a young girl’s unconscious sexual attraction to her father恋父情结 compare Oedipus complex
Word Originearly 20th cent.: named after Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.