Electra Complex, what is it all about? Who first diagnosed this?
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..Sigmund Freud talked about a "feminine Oedipus attitude," and Carl Jung proposed the name Electra complex for Freud's concept, deriving the name from the Greek myth of Electra, who wanted her brother to avenge the death of the siblings' father Agamemnon, by killing their mother, Clytemnestra.
Like the myth, a young girl can come to resent her mother and become abnormally attached to her father. According to Freud, a girl, like a boy, is originally attached to the mother figure. However, when she discovers that she lacks a penis, she becomes envious of the male penis. According to the theory, this penis envy leads to resentment towards the mother figure, who is believed to have caused the girl's "castration." She may then become sexually attracted to the father figure and imagine that she will become pregnant by him.
freud and jung classified this condition as a natural growth stage for all women where they grow closer to their father and away from their mothers
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I believe it was Freud. He came up with the notion that Oedipus was in love with his mother and killed his father to be with her. He was not to be foiled, Freud then came up with the female counterpart and named it Electra.
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