From past reading, I thought that during the Oedipus/Electra complex, when the child is attracted to the parent of the opposite sex (boy is attracted to mother, then realizes he's competing with father, and he can't possibly gain his mother) or (girl is attracted to father and can't compete against mother for father's love),
then the boy will identify with father, and the girl will identify with mother (because the child cannot compete)

Who does the child identify with?

The reason that I ask is that the book I am currently reading says that the child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex. This does not make sense.

Can anybody help with this?