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
Invading the Sacred of Owen Berkely-Hill and C.D Daly. She argues that a similar approach continues to this day in the works of Caldwell, Doniger, Courtright, Kripal etc. Chapter 14 is a response by Y. Krishnan to the application of Freudian theory by Paul Courtright which depicts "Fight between Shiva and Ganesha" as Oedipus and castration complex. Y. Krishnan proclaims, by referring the original Hindu scriptural sources (various Puranas), that "core Freudian assumptions simply do not apply to Ganesha and Shiva and also Western scholars have stretched the facts to fit their thesis".Yvette Rosser analyzes Somnath Bhattacharya's essay titled "Kali's Child : Psychological