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Electra complex

 
pronunciation:
ih lek tr kam pleks
part of speech: noun
definition: in Freudian psychoanalysis, the unconscious desire of a daughter for sexual gratification from her father, or her wish to take her mother's place in her father's affections. (Cf. Oedipus complex.)