HREQ 1920 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Castration Anxiety, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Homophobia

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Set of complex emoions arousing young children between the ages of 4-6. Unconscious desire for the parents of the opposite sex and exclusion of same sex parents: boys experience through castraion anxiety , girls experience through penis envy . All children are iniially bisexual as gender is not at all natural but a long process of constant instability. Neither girl nor mother has a penis. Girl is angry and hosile towards mother, in turn she to ideniies with her father. Knowing she cannot have her father"s penis she turns this wish for a penis into the wish for a baby. Three possible lines of development through this: she becomes neuroic, change of masculinity process (lesbian, normal femininity (has a baby and husband) Masculinity and femininity are not clear concept but a long social and physical process. Can only be associated with girls and creates a sexual inferiority that efects womens adult life: can determine choice of husband or lover.

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