Oedipus complex from the infantile clitoris to the adult vagina. Freud thus considered a girl's negative Oedipus complex to be more emotionally intense than that of a boy, resulting, potentially, in a woman of submissive, insecure personality; thus might an unresolved Electra complex, daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of father, lead to a phallic-stage fixation conducive to a girl becoming a woman who continually strives to dominate men (viz. penis envy), either as an unusually seductive woman (high self-esteem) or as an unusually submissive woman (low self-esteem). Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Electra complex are most important in
The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia child as from child to parent. In later chapters, the parent-child relationship of the Trobrianders is described with details of their complex matrilineal relationship structure in which the biological parentage is ignored. Based on ethnographic data, Malinowski argues that the Freudian Oedipus complex is not universal. Malinowski's argument that the Oedipus complex is not universal has been questioned by anthropologist Melford E. Spiro in his book "Oedipus in the Trobriands" (1982). The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia () is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. The work is his