The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings

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PART ONE: THE ENIGMA AND THE VEIL 1. The Battle of the Sexes 11 2. Speculation, Observation 16 3. Freud's Delays 20 4. The Other 33 5. An Exciting Enigma 36 Man's privilege 37 Woman's inaccessibility 39 The suspended tongue 42 Shame 48 Narcissistic woman 50 Criminal or hysteric 65 Strong sex or weak sex? 68 The sublation of mothers 71 Penis envier, prostitute, homosexual, fetishist 82 "The Throne and Altar are in danger" 89 Bedrock 92 PART TWO: FREUD INVESTIGATES 1. The Interest in the Enigma of Woman 101 2. The Immediate Certainty of Difference 106 3. The Indecision and Aporia Introduced by the Science of Anatomy 109 4. Psychology: Its Sterility and Impotence 114 5. Psychoanalysis: The Child Becomes a Woman 122 The original bisexuality 122 The development of sexuality: the difference between girls and boys 131 The identity of the sexes in the early phases of libidinal development 133 Puberty: the girl's two supplementary tasks 143 The hierarchical reversal 143 The change of object 144 The girl's libidinal relations with her mother 148 Active/passive, masculine/feminine 148 Ambivalence 158 Freud's exaggeration 161 The transformations of the mother-daughter relation 163 The list of accusations 164 The specific factor: penis envy 167 A critical turning point: the discovery of castration 178 The desire for the father and the establishment of femininity 190 The girl's Oedipus complex 199 The girl's masculinity complex 202 The consequences of bisexuality 206 Rhapsodic supplement 210