Series[UMA-SRE-20140039] RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CARD INDEXESAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014003900187Scope and ContentNotes: from Feminine Psychology - Cap. 1 On the genesis of the castration complex in women. (1922). Cites pages 38 [ penis envy - passive castration fantasies active fantasies of revenge based on assumption "females feel at a disadvantage because of their genital organs", 40 [I think moreover that this factor (penis envy) plays a leading part in every case of exaggerated embarrasment and prudery in girls, and I further conjecture that the difference in the dress of men and women, at least in our civilised races, may be traced to this very circumstance - that the girl cannot exhibit her sexual organs and that therefore in respect of her exhibitionistic tendencies she represses to a point at which this desire to display herself still applied to her whole body. This puts us on the track of the reason why a woman wears a low neck while man wears a dress coat...] & 42 [The fact that later, when she reaches maturity, a great part in sexual life (as regards creative power perhaps even a greater part than that of men) devolves upon a woman - I mean when she becomes a mother- cannot be any compensation to the..] Reference: Horney,K 1967, Feminine psychology: [papers], W.W. Norton, New York. [cited 1922 edition in notes].
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