According to Freud, girls suffer anxiety when they recognize that they do not have a penis.This frustration causes them to form a connection with their father, in the hope that the relationship will provide a replacement for the missing penis.According to Freudian theory, this is known as

A) the Oedipus complex.
B) castration anxiety.
C) the Electra complex.
D) a defense mechanism.

The described scenario is characteristic of the Electra complex, which is the female version of the Oedipus complex. The Electra complex describes a girl's attachment to her father, which is believed to arise from her recognition of her lack of a penis and consequent desire to obtain one vicariously through her father. Castration anxiety refers to the fear of losing one's penis, a fear that both boys and girls are thought to experience during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. While defense mechanisms play a crucial role in psychoanalytic theory, they are not directly relevant to the scenario described in the question stem.