In psychoanalytic theory, the male counterpart to the Electra complex is the Oedipus complex, which describes a young boy's psychosexual competition with his father for the affection of his mother.
The claim that there is a male counterpart to the Electra complex in psychoanalytic theory (the Oedipus complex) is a foundational and uncontroversial fact of psychological history taught in introductory psychology, making it common knowledge that requires no specific retrieved study to verify.