ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The term Electra Complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who is the author of his tragedy?
A
Aeschylus
B
Sophocles
C
Euripides
D
Seneca
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sigmund Freud, who developed the Oedipus complex theory, first developed the idea that a young girl child competes with her mother for the sexual attention of her father. However, it was Carl Jung-Freud’s contemporary-who first called this situation the “Electra complex” in 1913.

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