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
Oedipus in the Trobriands and H. A. Powell in "Man". The historian Peter Gay called "Oedipus in the Trobriands" "brilliant" in "" (1988). The anthropologist Donald Brown compared the book to Freeman's "Margaret Mead and Samoa" (1983) and the linguist Ekkehart Malotki's "Hopi Time" (1983) in "Human Universals" (1991). He suggested that these books form part of a larger reaction against "anthropological relativism". He described Spiro's arguments as persuasive, and credited him with showing many deficiencies in Malinowski's reasoning. According to Brown, Weiner, although critical of Spiro, nevertheless concluded that his arguments for the universality of the Oedipus complex appear convincing. Oedipus in the