Psychosexual development the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex; yet, it was his student–collaborator, Carl Jung, who coined the term Electra complex in 1913. Nonetheless, Freud rejected Jung's term as psychoanalytically 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". Oedipus : Despite mother being the parent who primarily gratifies the child's desires, the child begins forming a discrete sexual identity — "boy", "girl" — that
Oedipus in the Trobriands interest of those who are concerned with understanding the human condition." Influenced by psychoanalysis, he attempts to refute Malinowski's skepticism about the applicability of Sigmund Freud's ideas to the Trobriand Islanders, using Malinowski's own materials. "Oedipus in the Trobriands" was published in 1982 by University of Chicago Press. Ruth Solie gave "Oedipus in the Trobriands" a mixed review in "Library Journal", writing that while the book "will appeal to those interested in incest and psychological universals, interpreting the unconscious meanings of symbolic forms is a delicate, and often controversial, task." "Oedipus in the Trobriands" received positive reviews from C. R.