Tribute To John Frosch

Freud's writings on early female sexuality are reviewed in order to demonstrate which of his central assumptions are supported and which have been corrected by the direct observation of young children. The study of the emergence of core gender identity in little girls is a key to the modification of Freud's statements on the onset of and crucial factors in the development of femininity. Cognitive functions, learning experiences, and language are believed to be more important than Freud stressed, and penis envy and feelings of inferiority are relegated to a less universal and less necessary place in the onset of femininity. The role of the father is given different emphasis. Direct observation clarifies many aspects of masturbation or early genital self-stimulation in the young female: its onset; its feminine rather than masculine character; its early vicissitudes; its importance relative to other behavior; the impact of the discovery of anatomical difference; one special way it is affected by parental attitude; and how it contrasts with comparable behavior in the young male. Observation refutes Freud's often quoted statement that masturbation is further removed from the nature of women than of men

Aesthetics · Art · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Femininity · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sexual identity · Sociology · Tribute · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

• The feminine unconscious and psychoanalytic theory

  Ellen L K Toronto, Ellen L Toronto•Psychoanalytic Psychology•1991

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• Father's seduction of daughter entices her into the Oedipal phase

  Ruth F Lax•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2007

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• Feminine Sexuality and its Development

  Vilja Hägglund•The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic…•1981

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• Psychoanalytic Theories of Gender Identity

  Ethel Spector Person, Lionel Ovesey•Journal of the American Academy…•1983

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• Themes in Psychoanalytic Understanding of Women

  Malkah T Notman, Joan J Zilbach et al.•Journal of the American Academy…•1986

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• Appreciating Difference

  Open Access•Rosemary H Balsam•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•2013

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• I Want to Be a Daddy!”

  Katharine Rees•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1987

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• A Developmental Line of Gender Identity, Gender Role, and Choice of Love Object

  Open Access•Phyllis Tyson•Journal of the American…•1982

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• Psychoanalysis of a Constipated Girl

  Open Access•Jules Glenn•Journal of the American…•1977

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• Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality

  Open Access•Elizabeth L Auchincloss, Susan C Vaughan•Journal of the American…•2001

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• Female Psychology

  Open Access•Shahla Chehrazi•Journal of the American…•1986

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• The Development of Masculinity

  Open Access•Robert J Stoller, Gilbert H Herdt et al.•Journal of the American…•1982

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• Was Freud wrong about feminine psychology

  Open Access•Richard D Chessick•The American Journal of…•1984

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• Aspects of Primary and Secondary Genital Feelings and Anxieties in Girls During the Preoedipal and Early Oedipal Phases

  Ruth F Lax•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1994

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• Primary Femininity, Bisexuality, and the Female Ego Ideal

  Dianne Elise•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1997

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• The Empty Mother

  Open Access•Carolyn S Ellman•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•2000

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• A Woman’s Homosexual Transference with a Male Analyst

  Sheldon Roth, Sheldon H Roth•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1988

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• Beating Fantasies in a Latency Girl

  Lester H Friedman•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1985

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• Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives On Sex and Gender Mixes

  Open Access•Helen K Gediman•Journal of the American…•2005

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• The Absence of the Paternal Penis

  Open Access•Dianne Elise•Journal of the American…•1998

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• The Phallic Astration Complex and Primary Femininity

  Open Access•Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer•Journal of the American…•1995

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• Masochistic Pathology and Feminine Development

  Open Access•Isidor Bernstein•Journal of the American…•1983

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• Cognitive Development and Female Psychology

  Open Access•Martin A Silverman•Journal of the American…•1981

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• Infantile Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Obstacles to Oedipal Progression

  Open Access•Phyllis Tyson•Journal of the American…•1989

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• The Feminine Self and Body Image

  Marita Torsti•The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic…•1993

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• The Emergence of a Powerful Female Workforce as a Threat to Organizational Identity

  Open Access•Shelley Reciniello•American Behavioral Scientist•1999

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