Electra complex: alienation in the depths of self-motivated involution

Abstract

In recent years, “involution” as a hotly debated social phenomenon has generally appeared in front of people, and it is widely accepted that involution in general, and passive involution in particular, must be a kind of human alienation. However, there are different arguments for self-motivated involution. The point of this paper is that when a subject’s behavior is defined as “involution,” it is already alienation. Even if this “involution” is full of the subject’s own volition, it is strongly self-motivated and is interpreted in the context of psychoanalysis, i.e., the Electra complex.