Penis envy

(Kimmel, 2013,p.89).However, I do not agree with Freud’s explanations of sexual drives guiding our behavior, and or that women are incomplete or traumatized for not having a penis. Thus, I understand how this could have initiated many feminist movements that proposed that instead of a “penis envy” (p. 87), perhaps males had “womb envy” (96).…

In this stage they understand that having sexual relations with their mothers is impossible because they do not have the equipment to make that happen. The girls also realize they cannot have a penis so they now desire a sexual relationship with their fathers. The desires for her father now leads to the girls wanting to completely get their mothers out of the way. They also identify with the mother and realize they need to be sexually pleased by…

well as women's lack of certain characteristics, both physical and mental, that men possess. Women succumb to men as a result of their lack of a penis, the ultimate determinant for the possession of power. Through the physical dissimilarity in anatomy between the sexes, women's inadequacy solidifies as she makes the transition from the dissolution of penis-envy to her preparation for the role of a mother. Beauvoir attempts to justify women's inferior position in society through referencing their…

Human development involves the studies of human conditioning; psychoanalytic theories study the behaviour of society through peoples’ characteristics. Psychoanalytic theorists see that behaviour is extensively shaped by early childhood experiences with our parents. This is highlighted in Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) psychoanalytic theory. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist who became interested in the psychoanalytic aspect. He suggested that our behaviour was provoked by the libido, what Freud means…

When people think about psychology, sociology, or any other related fields, there is usually one person who comes to mind: Sigmund Freud. The well known father of psychoanalysis focused his studies on unconscious desires and conflicts, as well as the effects of childhood and sexual development. Because of the questionable subject matter, Freud’s research is usually regarded very controversially in the psychological and sociological fields. Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory was based primarily on…

writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual development theory which revolves around the Oedipus complex…

The short story “Daisy Miller” by Henry James is about a young girl who flirts with several of the guys in her town and who does not hold herself up like the typical lady. In the time period when the story was written, women were very proper and were known to cater to their father’s or husband’s every whim. That is not the case with Daisy. Daisy did not like to be held down; she liked to be able to prove that she was able to get through life on her own and to make her life decisions by herself.…

this stage begins to identify with his fathers (e.g. male) (Friedman et.al., 2012). Conversely, penis envy is directed towards the girl who notes the higher position that the boy holds within society, which is said to be indicated through differences in genitalia. And while the boy fixates for his mother in the Oedipus complex, the girl transfer her fixation onto her father “in attempt to capture a penis” (Friedman et.al.,…

It seems that Horney’s childhood had a huge influence on her view of Christianity and its place in human lives. Her father, a sea captain, was a misogynistic fundamentalist who apparently thought – without taking into consideration that the sin was Adam’s, not Eve’s – that women were the source of all the evil in the world because Eve gave into temptation in the Garden. (Karen Horney & Erich Fromm: Psychoanalytic Social Psychology, p. 649) Living with an – at best – verbally abusive father who…

Gender studies refers to masculinity and femininity in a cultural standpoint without referring to the biological side of things. It deals with the breakdown of binaries, which refers to typical “masculine” and “feminine” behavior. We can see how society has embedded and emphasized typical behaviors relating to gender in A Doll’s House. A man is supposed to be the leader of the family and usually makes the most money in the family. The woman in the relationship is supposed to take care of the…