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 Freudian Fallacy described it as "a model in the literature of denigration" in "" (1988), and the historian Roy Porter, who called it "tendentious". However, "The Freudian Fallacy" was praised by the psychologist Hans Eysenck in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), and has also received praise from other writers critical of psychoanalysis. The social and cultural theorist Todd Dufresne described "The Freudian Fallacy" as a notable work on the history of psychoanalysis, and the single best work on Freud's cocaine period. Richard Webster, writing in "Why Freud Was Wrong" (1995), called "The Freudian Fallacy" an interesting work. He considered