Penis envy
The penis envy is according to Freud during female of the Castration complex male. The young girl, during plays with her comrades, realizes that its own sex is truncated, that it does not have a penis and saw this discovery like a frustration, a deprivation.
This discovery would be the moment constitutive of the female personality.
The penis envy is thus the female phantasm of recovery of the missing penis. Freud considers several manners of recovery, each one characteristic of psyché female: the young girl can try to become the Phallus, by the means of esthetics, of the beauty. She can also incorporate the penis fantasmatiquement, to keep it in her and to restore it by the birth of a child: Freud thus explains female sexuality that it considers sometimes like “cannibal”, as well as the tendency to maternal fusion: the child being invested like penis, the mother cannot plan to separate some under penalty of losing the penis.
The psychoanalytical theory of the Hystérie calls (inter alia) upon the concept of the penis envy, from its bond with femininity: the hysterical would try through his symptoms at the same time to say the incestueux desire for the father, but also by certain paralyzes to restore the existence of a penis phantasm, built-in.
Some (E) S psychoanalysts dispute this concept of penis envy, which seems to presuppose that female sexuality as such does not exist, is not specific, and cannot be defined that into negative compared to has male sexuality. Thus, Karen Horney and Melanie Klein for example go against the designs freudiennes.
See: female Sexuality and Phallocentrisme.
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