Electra complex the Greek mythologic character Electra, who plotted matricidal revenge with Orestes, her brother, against Clytemnestra, their mother, and Aegisthus, their stepfather, for their murder of Agamemnon, their father (cf. "Electra", by Sophocles). Sigmund Freud developed the female aspects of the sexual development theory—describing the psychodynamics of a girl’s sexual competition with her mother for sexual possession of the father—as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex; yet it was his collaborator Carl Jung who coined the term Electra complex in 1913. Freud rejected Jung's term as psychoanalytically inaccurate: "that what we have said about the Oedipus complex applies
Oedipus in the Trobriands and H. A. Powell in "Man". The historian Peter Gay called "Oedipus in the Trobriands" "brilliant" in "" (1988). The anthropologist Donald Brown compared the book to Freeman's "Margaret Mead and Samoa" (1983) and the linguist Ekkehart Malotki's "Hopi Time" (1983) in "Human Universals" (1991). He suggested that these books form part of a larger reaction against "anthropological relativism". He described Spiro's arguments as persuasive, and credited him with showing many deficiencies in Malinowski's reasoning. According to Brown, Weiner, although critical of Spiro, nevertheless concluded that his arguments for the universality of the Oedipus complex appear convincing. Oedipus in the