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Electra complex
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Neo-Freudian/akt4QKo4">neo-Freudian</a> psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Swiss <a href="/facts/Psychiatrist/hS7EnAU6">psychiatrist</a> and <a href="/facts/Psychoanalyst/gYCbGpPv">psychoanalyst</a> <a href="/facts/Carl_Jung/k651RvXp">Carl Jung</a> (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) in his <i>Theory of Psychoanalysis</i>, is a girl's <a href="/facts/Psychosexual_development/uJDjlK7r">psychosexual</a> competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the <a href="/facts/Complex_(psychology)/sCLNP584">complex</a> is the girl's <a href="/facts/Phallic_stage/RT70mqvt">phallic stage</a>; a boy's analogous experience is the <a href="/facts/Oedipus_complex/RCFLLS2a">Oedipus complex</a>. The Electra complex occurs in the third—phallic stage (ages 3–6)—of five <a href="/facts/Psychosexual_development/uJDjlK7r">psychosexual development</a> stages: the <a href="/facts/Oral_stage/GQ799slg">oral</a>, the <a href="/facts/Anal_stage/bJ5okLv8">anal</a>, the <a href="/facts/Phallic_stage/RT70mqvt">phallic</a>, the <a href="/facts/Latency_stage/lvlnwvGe">latent</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Genital_stage/QCCcpyxk">genital</a>—in which the source of <a href="/facts/Libido/g1Eb72tA">libido</a> pleasure is in a different <a href="/facts/Erogenous_zone/w7FDbau1">erogenous zone</a> of the infant's body. </p><p>The idea of the Electra complex is not widely used by mental health professionals today. There is little empirical evidence for it, as the theory's predictions do not match scientific observations of child development. It is not listed in the <i><a href="/facts/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders/pJ29wFmm">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</a></i>. </p>