Elektra at the tomb of her father Agamemnon, by Frederic Leighton (ca. 1869)
The electronics complex is a psychological view of girls' development to adulthood. The electronics complex is seen as a counterpart of the oedipus complex in boys. The name is derived from Greek mythology: Elektra was the daughter of Agamemnon, whose death she tried to kill by killing her mother.
Carl Gustav Jung called the name of electrocomplex for the concept that Sigmund Freud had described as the "female oedipushouding" of young girls. According to Freud, a girl was originally also bound to her mother. However, if she finds she has no penis she becomes angry with her mother and is responsible for her. She then addresses her affection to her father and fantasizes about becoming pregnant of him. She believes that this pregnancy compensates for the missing penis (this jealousy is called penisnid). This means that she is given a status similar to that of the father. However, Freud terminated the term 'electronics complex'.
Feminists generally consider this theory as sexistic. The premise that women suffer from penis is attributed to the Victorian idea that male sexual organs are better than female. Others believe that at that time it was because of greater sexual privileges for men, but that of penis now is no longer the case for most women because of the success of the women's movement.
The theory has been in vain for decades, but is no longer seen as a serious psychological concept, except by Freud's followers. Related Topics
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