penis envy in English

noun
1
supposed envy of the male's possession of a penis, postulated by Freud to account for some aspects of female behavior (notably the castration complex) but controversial among modern theorists.
The female phallic stage is not simply and negatively arrested at the level of penis envy , as Freud thought; a daughter may be used just as well as a son by the mother for narcissistic completion.

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1. You know who has penis envy?

2. The Electra complex is the penis envy story.

3. And related to this, he developed the notorious theory of penis envy.

4. Has let itself be defined by the same kind of penis envy.

5. Shortly after, hysteria's explanatory powers would wane, overtaken by Sigmund Freud's notion of penis envy.

6. And penis envy is an account of a developmental state that every one of you who is female has gone through, according to Freud.

7. China envy has the same root as large penis envy. It's a condition suffered by right-wing Sun readers with tiny pricks. Simple really.

8. And that story I told you with the penises and the penis envy and the replacement is sort of a very shortened version of the Electra complex.

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