💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Electra complex"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| electranoun | (Greek mythology) Any of several mythical women, including a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, one of the Pleiades, and one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. |
| primal hordenoun | (psychoanalysis) In Freudian psychoanalysis, an archetypal cathexis of the sons usurping their father's hierarchical position; the basis of the Oedipus complex, and sometimes resulting in totemism. |
| imagonoun | (entomology) The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis. |
| psychenoun | The human soul, mind, or spirit. |
| thanatosnoun | (psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis. |
| oedipusnoun | (Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. |
| eratonoun | (Greek mythology) The goddess of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, eroticism, and mimic imitation, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne. Usually depicted with a crown/wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre and a golden arrow and doves. Often accompanies Eros/Cupid. |
| psyche knotnoun | Synonym of Grecian knot. |
| animusnoun | The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. |
| jocastanoun | (Greek mythology) The mother and wife of Oedipus. |
| eurydomenoun | (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter. |
| megaeranoun | (Greek mythology) One of the Furies, Erinyes in Greek mythology, the cause of jealousy and envy, who punishes people who commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. |
| erosnoun | Physical love; sexual desire. |
| hedonenoun | (Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus and Ares/Mars. Her Roman counterpart is Voluptas. |
| erotesnoun | (Greek mythology, often capitalised) Collectively, a group of winged gods attendant to Aphrodite, of whom Eros is the best known. |
| argiopenoun | (Greek mythology) Any one of several figures of Greek mythology. |
| maenadismnoun | (Greek mythology) The frenzied state of a female follower of Dionysus. |
| thyonenoun | (Greek mythology) Semele, mother of Dionysus. |
| iphigenianoun | (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy. |
| antigonenoun | (Greek mythology) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology |
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