Electra complex Flashcards
1
Q
What is it?
A
-Girls start with the belief they have already been castrated because they don’t have a penis
-young girl blames her mother and transfers her desires to her father
-she realises she cannot have a penis so changes her desires to have a baby with her father
-This puts her into conflict with her mother so she is fearful of losing her mothers love
-To resolve the conflict she identifies with her mother and internalises her gender behaviour the same as the boy did with his father
Freud said that the girls fear of loosing the mothers love is less serious than the boys fear of castration and so the super ego does not develop to be as strong
