Oedipus complex
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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex is a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual
Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805
Sigmund Freud (age 16) with his mother in 1872
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau (1864)
Otto Rank on the far left, behind Sigmund Freud, and other psychoanalysts (1922)
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