Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

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Statues of Electra and her brother Orestes at the Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. Credit: Mary Harsch, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 This is why the story of Electra, her family and kingdom ...

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It's got the blood-soaked drama of a movie thriller: murders and mental instability, paranoia and pathological obsessions, a brother thought dead who turns up alive. The dramatis personae are drawn ...