Posted by alexandra_k on December 3, 2005, at 21:43:17
In reply to Re: Anyone up to more serious psychological debate » Gee, posted by Dinah on December 3, 2005, at 21:31:54
> I don't know many women today who would endorse the idea of penis envy. (Well, I might. But only for recreational purposes.) But given the society of his day, maybe he wasn't too far off with it. I'm sure the role women were expected to play may well have influenced how and why women displayed some of their symptoms. And maybe they did indeed envy some of the qualities that at the time were limited to men by cultural constraint.
I read about that somewhere :-)
Apparantly... In the time he was writing girls were treated very differently from boys indeed. Girls were supposed to cook clean etc etc and be 'good wives' and not encouraged to study or be independent or whatever...and boys got lots of privaledges (like an education and not having to run around after their sisters)
so... from the little girls perspective...
'how come he gets treated better than me?!'
'oh. he has a penis...'
'hmm. i wish i had one of those because then i'd be allowed to do (whatever)'so... apparantly (given our culture today) penis envy would be fairly rare, yup.
:-)
> What do you think of symptoms being associated with different developmental phases?what would you have to find to show this to be false???
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