Electra complex: Meaning and Definition of

Elec'tra com"plex

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— Psychoanal. Psychoanal.
  1. the unresolved, unconscious libidinous desire of a daughter for her father: designation based on the Greek myth of Electra and Agamemnon. Cf. Oedipus complex.
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