SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Penis Envy, Nancy Chodorow, Essentialism
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Takes different trajectories based on the gender of the child. His first love is for his mother. He develops a rivalry with his father. He wishes his father were dead because he wants his mother all ot herself. If he continues this rivalry with his dad his father may castrate him one day - because he realizes that his mother does not have a penis. He withdraws his love from his mother and tries to emulate his fathers attitude in hope that being like daddy would make is mom love him more. As an adult he become heterosexual and tries to find the lost love of his mother. *explains gender identity (identifies with his father) and sexual identity. Means that he introjects portions of his fathers personality seeks to replace the mother-son bond by seeking the love of another. Soon discovers that her mother is castrated because she does not have a penis.
