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Elec′tra com′plex, [Psychoanal.]
  1. Psychologythe unresolved, unconscious libidinous desire of a daughter for her father: designation based on the Greek myth of Electra and Agamemnon. Cf. Oedipus complex.
  • 1910–15

'Electra complex' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Oedipus complex

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