The Phallic Astration Complex and Primary Femininity
Paired Developmental Lines toward Female Gender Identity
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8334693 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer (435 Russell Street Berkeley, CA 94705, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1995 |
| Volumen | 43 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 17-38 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000306519504300105 |
| PMID | 7650274 |
| OpenAlex | W1998852276 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 22 |
| Referencias citadas | 17 |
I suggest that two developmental lines contribute to the achievement of female gender identity. One is rooted in the phallic Castration complex, and the other in primary femininity. Far from being mutually exclusive, the two comprise necessary aspects of every girl's progress toward becoming a woman. To that extent, every woman's analysis will include the analysis of compromise formations that emerge from both. In distinguishing clinical manifestations of each developmental line, I suggest that it may be useful to conceptualize primary femininity and the phallic castration complex as affect-defense configurations which incorporate two fundamentally different ideas about danger. In conflicts of primary femininity, danger is anticipated: anxiety is the signal for compromise formation, since what is actually possessed (the female genital). is valued and is therefore imagined as subject to danger. In the phallic castration complex, danger is imagined already to have occurred. Depressive affectbecomes the primary motive for defense, based on a fantasy that what is valued (the male genital) has already been lost This distinction may facilitate our efforts to specify exactly how recent revisions in theories of female development have explicit implications for practice
Aesthetics · Art · Compromise · Developmental psychology · Fantasy · Femininity · Identity (music) · Literature · Phallic stage · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Mentoring and Academic Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Oedipus in Brooklyn
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Where Sex Was, There Shall Gender Be? the Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Gender Theory
The Riddle of Femininity
Phallic and seminal masculinity
The rape of Medusa in the temple of Athena
Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives On Sex and Gender Mixes
The Absence of the Paternal Penis
Castration Depression
Gender On the Modern-Postmodern and Classical-Relational Divide
Cloacal Anxiety in Female Development
Passions in Girls and Women
Gender in Linear and Nonlinear History
Cyclones, Bi-Cycles, and Psychoanalysis
Exploration of Women's Body Experiences Surrounding First Childbirth
Integrating Male and Female Elements in a Woman's gEnder Identity
Body Ego and the Preoedipal Roots of Feminine Gender Identity
Primary Femininity
The Ethics of Care for the Other
Female Psychology
Aspects of early gender development
The Sense of Femaleness
On the Sense of Absence
Use of the Analyst as a Fetish
The Influence of Sphincter Control and Genital Sensation on Body Image and Gender Identity in Women
The Drive to Become Both Sexes
Tribute To John Frosch
Outside and Inside, Male and Female
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Depression
Vaginal Awareness in the Infancy and Childhood of Grils
A Developmental Line of Gender Identity, Gender Role, and Choice of Love Object
Masturbation from Infancy to Senescence
| Obras citantes distintas | 22 |
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| Citas por año | 0,76 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 21 |