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
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