The Electra Complex

 

WIKIPEDIA s.v. "Electra Complex": Sigmund Freud developed the female aspects of the sexual development theory — describing thepsychodynamics of a girl’s sexual competition with mother for sexual possession of father — as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex;^[4] yet it was his collaboratorCarl Jung who coined the term Electra complex in 1913.^[5][6][7] Freud rejected Jung’s term aspsychoanalytically inaccurate: “that what we have said about the Oedipus complex applies with complete strictness to the male child only, and that we are right in rejecting the term ‘Electra complex’, which seeks to emphasize the analogy between the attitude of the two sexes”.^[8]

 

4^ Jung, Carl (1913). The Theory of Psychoanalysis.

5^ Scott, Jill (2005) Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture Cornell University Press p. 8.

6^ Jung, Carl (1970). Psychoanalysis and Neurosis. Princeton University Press..

7^ Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (London 1991) p. 375

 

 

H.C. Halberstadt-Freud, Electra versus Oedipus. Psychoanalytische visies op de moeder-dochter relatie, 1997

 

 

Note the chronology of Strauss' Elektra:

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal composes the tragedy in 1903 (performed Oct 1903)

  Strauss' opera first performed Dresden 3 Jan 1909, but the opus 58 is dated 1906-1908.