Getting stuck in the Electra complex, or being an eternal lover.

Getting stuck in the Electra complex, or being an eternal lover.

I promised to write, in addition to an article about the Oedipus complex, also an article about the Electra complex.

Let me make a reservation right away that the name “Electra complex” came from my respected Carl Gustav Jung, and not from Sigmund Freud.

Freud also used the term Oedipus complex for girls.

However, the description of the Electra complex coincides with the same one used by Freud for the female sex, the Oedipus complex, only in a complementary and inverse sense.

The important thing is that the Electra complex, like the Oedipus complex, appears from about 3 to 5–6 years in girls and boys.

If we consider the myth about Electra itself, it ends rather sadly. The daughter, jealous of her father, pitying him and saving him from her mother, kills her.

How does the complex originate? The girl has a good, sensitive father, loving and caring, and is very drawn to her father. And the mother becomes a rival, a rival between the daughter and the father, interfering with their relationship. The daughter loves her father like a little woman, not understanding that the craving that manifests itself at this age for her father cannot be real. To prevent the complex from moving into an unhealthy phase in the future, when the father says “I want to marry you” from his daughter, he must inform…