Question

A nursing instructor is explaining to a group of nursing students that preschoolers often exhibit the Electra complex during their psychosocial development. At which stage of Freud’s theory is the Electra complex seen?

Answer 1

Phallic stage

Step-by-step explanation:

During an infant's psychosexual development there are different stages, in the phallic stage, that happens to preschoolers from ages 3 to 6 (as you can see in the image I added), infants go through the Electra complex, a girl's competition with her mother for possession of her father, the analogous version for boys is the Oedipus complex.

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