Electra-pus Complex.
Used in a sentence: "If a boy who wants to kill his father because he's in love with his mother defines the Oedipus complex ... and a girl who wants to kill her mother because she's in love with her father defines the Electra complex ... then I guess when a male baseball player tries to off his mother with a foul ball during a game (as happened recently with a poorly hit ball from a Minnesota Twinnian), it should be called the Electra-pus complex!"
If I follow the Freudian/Jungian concepts, him killing his mother would mean that he was in love with his father ... Heavens to Murgatroid! Maybe it should be the Electra-Snaggle-Pus Complex!! (Or maybe that's a bit of a stretch ...)
All attempted kidding aside, the player's Mom quickly recovered, and she returned to the stands shortly after being hit, according to this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/sports/baseball/01twins.html
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