Electra complex Electra complex In Neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Jung in his ""Theory of Psychoanalysis"", is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. In the course of her psychosexual development, the complex is the girl's phallic stage; a boy's analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex occurs in the third—phallic stage (ages 3–6)—of five psychosexual development stages: (i) the Oral, (ii) the Anal, (iii) the Phallic, (iv) the Latent, and (v) the Genital—in which the source of libido pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant’s body. In
The Freudian Fallacy described it as "a model in the literature of denigration" in "" (1988), and the historian Roy Porter, who called it "tendentious". However, "The Freudian Fallacy" was praised by the psychologist Hans Eysenck in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), and has also received praise from other writers critical of psychoanalysis. The social and cultural theorist Todd Dufresne described "The Freudian Fallacy" as a notable work on the history of psychoanalysis, and the single best work on Freud's cocaine period. Richard Webster, writing in "Why Freud Was Wrong" (1995), called "The Freudian Fallacy" an interesting work. He considered