Freud was right. So was the bible. Here was Freud's take on female psycho-sexual development (pay special attention to the end in bold):
Psychosexual development[edit]
Child[edit]
Penis envy stems from Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex in which the phallic conflict arises for males, as well as for females.[8][9] Though Carl Jung made the distinction between the Oedipus Complex for males and the Electra Complex for females in his work The Theory of Psychoanalysis,[10] Freud rejected this latter term, stating that the feminine Oedipus complex is not the same as the male Oedipus because, "It is only in the male child that we find the fateful combination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred of the other as a rival".[11] This development of the female Oedipus complex according to Freud begins when the female makes comparisons with another male, perceiving this not as a sex characteristic; but rather, by assuming that she had previously possessed a penis, and had lost it by castration. This leads to the essential difference between the male and female Oedipus complex that the female accepts castration as a fact, while the boy fears its happening.[8]
Freud felt that penis envy leads to:
The result of these anxieties culminates in the girl giving up on her desire for the penis, and instead puts it in the place of the wish for a child; and with that goal in mind, she takes her father as the love-object and makes the mother into the object of her jealousy.[14]
Adult[edit]
Freud considered that in normal female development penis envy transformed into the wish for a man and/or a baby.[15]
Karl Abraham differentiated two types of adult women in whom penis envy remained intense as the wish-fulfilling and the vindictive types:[16] The former were dominated by fantasies of having or becoming a penis—as with the singing/dancing/performing women who felt that in their acts they magically incorporated the [parental] phallus.[17] The latter sought revenge on the male through humiliation or deprivation (whether by removing the man from the penis or the penis from the man).[18]
In other words, a "bitch" is born in her child years when she discovers she doesn't have a penis.
Psychosexual development[edit]
Child[edit]
Penis envy stems from Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex in which the phallic conflict arises for males, as well as for females.[8][9] Though Carl Jung made the distinction between the Oedipus Complex for males and the Electra Complex for females in his work The Theory of Psychoanalysis,[10] Freud rejected this latter term, stating that the feminine Oedipus complex is not the same as the male Oedipus because, "It is only in the male child that we find the fateful combination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred of the other as a rival".[11] This development of the female Oedipus complex according to Freud begins when the female makes comparisons with another male, perceiving this not as a sex characteristic; but rather, by assuming that she had previously possessed a penis, and had lost it by castration. This leads to the essential difference between the male and female Oedipus complex that the female accepts castration as a fact, while the boy fears its happening.[8]
Freud felt that penis envy leads to:
- Resentment towards the mother who failed to provide the daughter with a penis
- Depreciation of the mother who appears to be castrated
- Giving up on phallic activity (clitoral masturbation) and adopting passivity (vaginal intercourse)
- A symbolic equivalence between penis and child[9]
The result of these anxieties culminates in the girl giving up on her desire for the penis, and instead puts it in the place of the wish for a child; and with that goal in mind, she takes her father as the love-object and makes the mother into the object of her jealousy.[14]
Adult[edit]
Freud considered that in normal female development penis envy transformed into the wish for a man and/or a baby.[15]
Karl Abraham differentiated two types of adult women in whom penis envy remained intense as the wish-fulfilling and the vindictive types:[16] The former were dominated by fantasies of having or becoming a penis—as with the singing/dancing/performing women who felt that in their acts they magically incorporated the [parental] phallus.[17] The latter sought revenge on the male through humiliation or deprivation (whether by removing the man from the penis or the penis from the man).[18]
In other words, a "bitch" is born in her child years when she discovers she doesn't have a penis.
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