Oedipus complex the Electra complex to describe a girl's daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of the father. In the phallic stage, a girl's Electra complex is her decisive psychodynamic experience in forming a discrete sexual identity (ego). Whereas a boy develops castration anxiety, a girl develops penis envy, for she perceives that she has been castrated previously (and missing the penis), and so forms resentment towards her own kind as inferior, while simultaneously striving to claim her father's penis through bearing a male child of her own. Furthermore, after the phallic stage, the girl's psychosexual development includes transferring her primary erogenous zone
Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres) continued his studies and, as required of every winner of the "Prix", he sent works at regular intervals to Paris so his progress could be judged. As his "envoi" of 1808 Ingres sent a life-size "Figure of Oedipus" and "The Valpinçon Bather", hoping by these two paintings to demonstrate his mastery of the male and female nude. The academicians were moderately critical of the treatment of light in both paintings, and considered the figures to be insufficiently idealized. Afterwards, Ingres retained the "Figure of Oedipus" in his studio for years. Around 1825 he decided to rework it to turn what