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 Badcock in the "British Journal of Sociology", and John S. Matthiasson in the "Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology". Badcock compared Spiro's criticism of Malinowski in "Oedipus in the Trobriands" to anthropologist Freeman's criticism of Mead in "Margaret Mead and Samoa" (1983), crediting Spiro with exposing the "glaring contradictions, obvious fallacies and supported assertions" in Malinowski's work. Badcock wrote that while Spiro's conclusions would come as a surprise to many anthropologists, Spiro fully authenticated them. Badcock praised Spiro's discussion of the "universality of the Oedipus complex". Matthiasson called "Oedipus in the Trobriands" "tightly reasoned" and an "important book" that forces