_______ complex is to girls as the ______ complex is to boys.

Freud believed that personality gets well established during childhood, largely before the age of five years.

• He proposed five stages of psychosexual development which include oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage.

Key Points

• Freud has proposed the concept of  'Electra complex' and 'Oedipus complex' in the Phallic stage of the Psychosexual Development Theory.

• The successful resolution of these two complexes develops a mature sexual identity.

• Oedipus complex: 
  • Boy's sense of affection for his mother.
  • Feeling of rivalry for the father.
  • A threat of getting punished by the father for having a desire for the mother.
• Electra complex: 
  • Girl's sense of affection for his father.
  • Feeling of rivalry for mother.
  • A threat of getting punished by the mother for having this feeling towards her father.

Hence, it could be concluded that the Electra complex is to girls as the Oedipus complex is to boys.