Phallic stage the female aspect of phallic-stage psychosexual development as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex; but his student–collaborator Carl Jung proposed the "Electra complex", derived from Greek mythologic character Electra, who plotted matricidal revenge against her mother for the murder of her father, to describe a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father. Despite mother being the parent who primarily gratifies the child's desires, the child begins forming a discrete sexual identity — "boy", "girl" — that alters the dynamics of the parent and child relationship; the parents become the focus of infantile libidinal
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