Elec·tra complex i-.lek-trə- n the Oedipus complex when it occurs in a female Elec·tra i-'lek-trə Greek mythological character. Electra was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the sister of Orestes. After the murder of their father by their mother and her lover, the brother and sister conspired to murder the two lovers. The Electra complex is so named because of Electra's intense devotion to her father.
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the counterpart in females of the Oedipus complex, which was originally applied only to males, involving the daughter's love for her father and jealousy or resentment toward her mother; the term is now rarely used since Oedipus c. (q.v.) has come to be applied to both sexes.Medical dictionary. 2011.