Electra complex of "Mother" develops the super-ego as the girl establishes a discrete sexual identity (ego). Without a penis, the girl cannot sexually possess her mother, as the infantile id demands. Consequently, the girl redirects her desire for sexual union upon her father, and thus progresses to heterosexual femininity, which culminates in bearing a child who replaces the absent penis. Moreover, after the phallic stage, the girl’s psychosexual development includes transferring her primary erogenous zone from the infantile clitoris to the adult vagina. Freud thus considered the feminine Oedipus attitude ("Electra complex") to be more emotionally intense than the Oedipal conflict of
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