Oedipus complex the Electra complex to describe a girl's daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of the father. In the phallic stage, a girl's Electra complex is her decisive psychodynamic experience in forming a discrete sexual identity (ego). Whereas a boy develops castration anxiety, a girl develops penis envy, for she perceives that she has been castrated previously (and missing the penis), and so forms resentment towards her own kind as inferior, while simultaneously striving to claim her father's penis through bearing a male child of her own. Furthermore, after the phallic stage, the girl's psychosexual development includes transferring her primary erogenous zone
The Freudian Fallacy Masson's "The Assault on Truth" (1984), another book marked by hostility to Freud and psychoanalysis. According to Webster, "The Freudian Fallacy" received negative reviews in "The Times Literary Supplement" and the "London Review of Books", the latter of which included a false accusation of anti-Semitism that was later withdrawn with an apology. He criticized the press coverage that Thornton's book received in Britain, calling "The Sunday Times Magazine"′s treatment of Thornton's claims about Freud's addiction to cocaine sensational and shallow. The Freudian Fallacy The Freudian Fallacy, first published in the United Kingdom as Freud and Cocaine, is a 1983 book