Sigmund Freud- 29th july.

The Electra complex is the psychoanalytic theory that a female's psychosexual development involves a sexual attachment to her father, and is analogous to a boy's attachment to his mother that forms the basis of the Oedipus complex. It was a theory coined by Sigmund Freud a well known pschoanalysis scholar. This complex comes with an attachment for the parent of the opposite sex, and a bias towards them. I do not believe this theory to be true. i believe that the love one feels for their parent is true love. it is the only love free from lust, and greed. I may not be a great psychologist, but i do believe that a child loves his parents in propartion to what they mean to them. i will not be naive and say it is exual, for love for one parent could easily exceed love for the other, but it is not love of a sexual nature, and hence, a girl will not love her father more becasuse she is attracted to him. Psychology is a systematic study field of mental functions and behavior. Though we act in many ways that dont always seem to be righteous, i feel that this theory is putting a perverse label on the love a child has for the people who brought her or him into this world. It would be wrong to even think that way, because it makes the idea of love become a perpetual physical attraction. If an innocent 5 year old loves his parents, it can not be blamed on sexual desire. Even at the age of 15, this loves nature dos not change. Infact it is in these years that teenagers grow apart from their parents because they become closer to their friends. Though i do have in interest in psychology and am in awe of Freud for many of his theories like his dream interpretation, and his research in neaurobehavior, i feel that this one thoery is baseless.