Electra complex
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In neo-Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung in his Theory of Psychoanalysis, is a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for
Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon by Frederic Leighton, c. 1869
Prince Charming hero meets Cinderella heroine (1912)
Sylvia Plath employed the Electra complex in poetry
Orestes
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In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He was also known by the patronymic Agamemnonides, meaning "son of Agamemnon
Orestes being purified by Apollo on an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC, now in the Louvre.
Orestes at Delphi flanked by Athena and Pylades among the Erinyes and priestesses of the oracle, perhaps including Pythia behind the tripod – Paestan red-figured bell-krater, c. 330 BC
Orestes, Elektra, and Pylades at the tomb of Agamemnon - Campanian red-figure hydria, c. 330 BC
Orestes and Iphigeneia on an antique mosaic, Musei Capitolini