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	Electra complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Electra complex is an ambiguous psychiatric concept which attempts to explain the maturation of the human female.
		It is said to be the female counterpart to the Oedipus complex in males.
		According to Sigmund Freud, the girl is originally attached to the mother as well; however, when she discovers that she lacks a penis during the phallic stage the daughter becomes libidinally attached to her father and imagines that she will become pregnant by him, while becoming more hostile towards her mother.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electra_complex (416 words)

	Complex (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an individual's otherwise mysterious condition: the detail varies widely from theory to theory.
		The term "complex," or "feeling-toned complex of ideas," was adopted by Carl Jung when he was still a close associate of Sigmund Freud.
		Some of the key complexes Jung wrote about were the anima (a node of unconscious beliefs and feelings in a man's psyche relating to the opposite gender) and animus (the corresponding complex in a woman's psyche); and the shadow (Jung's term embracing any aspect of psyche which has been excluded from conscious awareness).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Complex_(psychology) (524 words)

	Carmen Electra complex - Encyclopedia Dramatica
		Most neurotic complexes are set from unresolved conflicts in infancy and early childhood, but the Carmen Electra complex typically occurs in the Phallic stage of psychosexual maturation.
		The Carmen Electra complex is curious in that the complex is laid during the Phallic stage of psychosexual development, although it does not represent a phallic regression per se.
		In glaring contrast, the Carmen Electra complex sufferer usually wallous about in intense self-pity; in this, he is not so different from the narcissistic character.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Carmen_Electra_complex (921 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		Either Jung's Electra complex provides a means of emphasizing love for the father and jealousy of the mother as the content of the so-called female "Oedipus" complex, with the aim of correcting Freud's lop-sided masculinist account [7].
		Or else, in a voluminous and well-established sub-category of the psychotherapeutic literature, Electra's mourning for her father is ammexed to the plight of the abused daughter and incest survivor - a daughter who may be driven to kill her abuser [8].
		Electra is made to respond with uninhibited jubilance to Clytemnestra's screams as she dies off-stage at the hands of her son.
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol5no3/jacobus.html (4690 words)

	Psychology In Perspective - The Complex
		Thus, a person with an authority complex may have difficulty in being a member of a group but, by channeling the desire to be "in charge," may become a creative, democratic leader--one who is authoritative but who considers the wishes of other persons.
		Another such complex indicator may occasion the words "That's just the way it is." A man whose business is in difficulty may tell his wife that he fears he will lose "everything": his savings, his business and his status as a leader in the community.
		Although, as I mentioned earlier, a positive father complex can enhance the possibility of finding a congenial husband, it is possible for such a complex to contribute to a woman's getting into a marriage that is destructive to her.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /psychology/complex2.shtml (8148 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Electra by Sophocles
		For both of you there is good in what is urged,- if thou, Electra, wouldst learn to profit by her counsel, and she, again, by thine.
		For my part, friends, I am not wholly unused to her discourse; nor should I have touched upon this theme, had I not heard that she was threatened with a dread doom, which shall restrain her from her long-drawn laments.
		Electra, forsaken, braves the storm alone; she bewails alway, hapless one, her father's fate, like the nightingale unwearied in lament; she recks not of death, but is ready to leave the sunlight, could she but quell the two Furies of her house.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/electra.html (8548 words)

	Electra by Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In fact, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung originated the term "Electra complex" to describe a girl's excessive love for her father and corresponding hostility toward her mother.
		Electra sends for Orestes, her younger brother, from the royal palace to protect him from Clytemnestra.
		The story is told through the mind of Electra and the stage is peopled with elements from her memory and the terrors of her psyche made manifest in the form of furies and Gods.
	members.aol.com /farolan1/electra.html (640 words)

	Electra
		Electra was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae during the Trojan war.
		Electra's desire for revenge was very destructive, but her compassion for her brother was her redemption.
		The Electra complex is a condition in Freudian psychology where a girl develops a guilt because she lacks a visible penis.
	www.fjkluth.com /electra.html (3740 words)

	The Oedipus and Electra complex
		The Oedipus Complex is a Freudian term named after a Greek myth in which a man kills his father and unknowingly sleeps with his mother.
		An unresolved complex has similar consequences to those described for a man. Women will often seek out a man who treats them similar to their father, or who even shares similar physical characteristics.
		During the third session of therapy I explained the Oedipus complex to him, and he surprised me by saying that he was consciously in love with his mother, and that he had for no apparent reason always hated his father--in fact he had a violent wish to kill him.
	www.irishhypnotherapy.com /page21.html (575 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Electra, Carmen: Electra's complex
		Electra did try to persuade Rodman to do a cameo as the driver of a car that slams into her in one scene, sending her hurtling into the air and landing with a splat.
		Electra is not the little sexpot princess or complete airhead that she seemed to be when she married Rodman on a whim Nov. 14, 1998, after he spent all night drinking and gambling in Las Vegas.
		Electra is adamant that she married Rodman out of love and in extreme emotional pain.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/E/Electra_Carmen/2000/07/09/758175.html (1078 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Electra (Dover Thrift S.): Books: Sophocles,George Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In the Sophocles version of "Electra" the emphasis is on the psychological dimensions of the situation; after all, it is from this play that Freud developed his concept of the Electra complex.
		Electra argues that the daughters must assume the burden and avenge their father while Chrysothemis takes the counter position.
		Electra is not as central a character to the drama as she is in the Euripides version, mainly because she does not have a functional purpose in this tragedy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486284824 (817 words)

	Electra complex
		Sigmund Freud believed that all daughters unconsciously want to sleep with their fathers, in what he called the Electra complex, which he believed to be the female counterpart to the Oedipus complex in males.
		Freud also believed that, as part of the Electra complex, women have unconscious penis envy, the tragic desire to possess the same sexual organ as men.
		Freud's teaching that women suffer from penis envy is generally attributed to the Victorian assertion that male sex organs are somehow better than those of females.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Penis_envy.html (108 words)

	Introduction to Sophocles' Electra :: Haverford College
		Sophocles' Electra focuses on the aftermath of the murder of Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army in its assault on the Troy, by his wife Clystemnestra upon his return from war.
		Other Electras: a summary of the significant Greek retellings of the Electra myth, including a summary of Aeschylus' treatment, and a comparison of those by Sophocles and Euripides.
		Electra has entered pop culture through Freud's "Electra Complex", a feminine version of the better known "Oedipal Complex", in which the child conceives an erotic love for the parent.
	www.haverford.edu /classics/activities/electra/electra.html (332 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Electra by Euripides-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		Melanie Klein came to the conclusion that Electra’s hatred though intensified by the murder of Agamemnon has its seed in the rivalry of the daughter for the mother, which focuses on the unconscious frustration at not having had sexual gratification from the father.
		Early disturbances in the girl’s relationship to her mother are important in the development of the Oedipus complex, which is referred to as Electra complex by some psychoanalysts.
		In Orestes too, an inverted Oedipus complex is seen to the extent that he is willing to obey the oracle without reasoning or analyzing how evil the order is. The inverted Oedipus complex is increased due to the absence of the father and/or by his neglect of the son.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmElectra22.asp (543 words)

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	Blue Star Brewery: Bike Shop - Electra Stream Ride
		For the parents: The Electra Straight 8 features Flat Foot technology so that small riders can touch their feet to the ground when stopping, inspiring confidence and improving safety.
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	What are Oedipus Complex and Electra Complex
		A complex is a group of associated ideas (which may be partly unconscious) that have strong emotional overtones.
		The Oedipus complex, first described by Sigmund Freud, refers to the attachment of the male child for his parent of the opposite sex accompanied by feelings of envy and aggression toward the parent of his own sex.
		A parallel type of complex has long been recognized as existing in girls and is called the Electra complex.
	www.fetchfreereports.com /health/freeoedipuselectracomplex_0401.html (177 words)

	Oedipus Complex
		Oedipus complex, a concept used in psychoanalysis, is a child's unconscious desire for the exclusive love of the parent of the opposite sex.
		However, later researchers used the term Electra complex for the complex in girls.
		According to Freud, the principal reason for the weakening of the complex in boys is the fear of punishment from the father.
	www.a2zpsychology.com /psychology_guide/oedipus_complex.htm (260 words)

	In Rebecca female sexuality is explored through the heroine’s symbolic development of a negative Oedipal complex ...
		In Rebecca female sexuality is explored through the heroine’s symbolic development of a negative Oedipal complex followed by an Electra complex.
		An Electra complex is defined by the girl’s imagined rivalry between mother and daughter for the father’s love.
		This Electra complex is short lived because the shipwreck and discovery of Rebecca’s body eliminates sexual rivalry when she discovers that Maxim did not love Rebecca.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~scobb/studentessay2.html (1129 words)

	Amazon.com: Electra: DVD: Michael Cacoyannis,Irene Papas,Yannis Fertis,Aleka Katselli,Theano Ioannidou,Notis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Electra and her brother Orestes, children of the royal couple, are both thrown out of their palatial home--Orestes is exiled, and Electra forced to marry a commoner and live in a hovel.
		The term "Electra Complex" refers to a daughter's unnatural love for her father and while this is not overtly portrayed here, the hints are certainly in place.
		Electra is a 1962 fl and white adaptation of the version of the story from Euripides.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005UJY8?v=glance (1989 words)

	LitGloss - E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Electra complex The female version of the Oedipus complex.
		Electra complex is a term used to describe the psychological conflict of a daughter's unconscious rivalry with her mother for her father's attention.
		The name comes from the Greek legend of Electra, who avenged the death of her father, Agamemnon, by plotting the death of her mother.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_e.html (360 words)

	CD Baby: MEDUSA COMPLEX: Medusa Complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Medusa Complex is an affliction, which is shared by the majority of Christians, Muslims, and Jews around the world, yet you wont' find mention of it in any Psychology textbook.
		The Medusa Complex like the Oedipus Complex and Electra complex is a total bullshit concept conceived of by individuals who were and still are quite ill.
		Medusa Complex is the amazing journey of a self-diagnosed female band that evolves from the state of shared mental illness (sick of the patriarchy) through the angry waters of truth.
	cdbaby.com /cd/medusacomplex (198 words)

	Zoe Wanamaker and the Electra Complex
		Wanamaker is sitting in the Green Room at McCarter Theater working on a tray of take-out sushi during a lunchtime rehearsal break, talking about her title role in Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy, "Electra." Electra is a woman who persists in mourning her father, Agamemnon, years after his grisly murder at his wife's own hand.
		"Electra is not an obscure classic, a strange story of a distant time and place and people," explains director Leveaux in his production notes.
		eveaux describes his idea of Electra as "a woman who is locked in a kind of captivity of childhood, and that makes her ferociously dangerous." He then goes on to explain how Wanamaker has frequently been cast as the best friend or the kinder party.
	www.princetoninfo.com /199809/80916p01.html (2869 words)

	Electra
		According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War and was murdered by Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover, and/or by Clytemnestra herself.
		Aeschylus, Oresteia; Euripides, Electra; Orestes; Apollodorus, Epitome VI, 23-28.
		Electra at the tomb of Agamemnon, Sir William Blake Richmond (British, 1842-1921)
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Electra.html (510 words)

	MAGINDIA.COM - Electra complex: Kelvinator turns up the heat
		In fact, the Electra is all set to break new ground and set new standards for the rest of the industry.’’ The USP of superior cooling alongwith thicker insulation, (50 per cent more than conventional models, claims the company) helps keep the fridge cooler for a longer period, which is a help during power cuts.
		Designed by the Electrolux design centre in Sweden, Electra’s other features include: an electronic panel that has a temperature indicator, digital clock, thermostat control, compressor on/off indicator and door open alarm.
		Electra will be available through the company’s national network of 5,179 distributors by mid-May. The campaign, handled by Ogilvy & Mather, will run till the end of May, and include print ads in national dailies and banners, besides the TV commercial.
	www.magindia.com /manarch/news/man644.html (614 words)

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		So the Electra Complex has to do with an obsession with the parent of the opposite sex.
		The Electra Complex makes things much more obvious in the film, even down to Ellie’s name, which would indicate the complex (Ellie=Electra?), and the fact that the theory is drawn from Greek history (hint: Greek tragedy mask).
		Ok, so after realizing that the whole concept of the Electra Complex meant that a lot of the plot went over my head, there was still plenty for me to criticize.
	www.epinions.com /content_103266553476 (1454 words)

	The Electra Complex
		IN THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX, Boys renounce their feelings for the mother because of the fear of castration yet Freud suggested that this would not be the case in girls, who had already been castrated by their mother.
		Freud suggested that the Electra complex would simply fade away as girls realised that they would never posses their father.
		However, because the threat of punishment through castration is not present for girls, they are not under the same pressure to renounce these feelings and identify with the standards felt of the mother.
	www.btinternet.com /~brownfamilywebsite/freud/Electra_complex.htm (211 words)

	LitGloss - O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Oedipus complex A Freudian term derived from Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.
		It describes a psychological complex that is predicated on a boy's unconscious rivalry with his father for his mother's love and his desire to eliminate his father in order to take his father's place with his mother.
		The female equivalent of this complex is called the Electra complex.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_o.html (374 words)

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