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  1. n. psychoanalysis The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.

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  1. n. a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father

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  1. With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother. (Wiktionary)

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