A Clinical Report of Penis Envy: Its Multiple Meanings and Defensive Function

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Blum, H. P. (1976). Masochism, the ego ideal, and the psychology of women. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 24 (5): 157–191.

Freud, S. (1937). Analysis terminable and interminable. S. E., 23.

Galenson, E. & Roiphe, H. (1971). The impact of early sexual discovery on mood, defensive organization, and symbolization. Psychoanal. Study Child, 26: 195–216.

Grossman, W. & Stewart, W. (1976). Penis envy: from childhood wish to developmental metaphor. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 24 (5): 193–212.

Karme, L. (1978). The penis as umbilical cord. Psychoanal. Q., 47: 425–429.

Lerner, H. (1976). Parental mislabeling of female genitals as a determinant of penis envy and learning inhibitions in women. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 24 (5): 269–284.

Moore, B. E. (1976). Freud and female sexuality. Int. J. Psychoanal, 57: 287–300.

Schafer, R. (1974). Problems in Freud's psychology of women. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 22: 459–485.

Stoller, R. (1973). Overview: The impact of new advances in sex research on psychoanalytic theory. Amer. J. Psychiat., 130 (3): 241–251.

10.

Torok, M. (1970). The significance of penis envy in women. In Female Sexuality, ed. J. Chasseguet-Smirgel . Ann Arbor: Univ. Mich. Press, pp. 135–170.