from Freud:
Introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1905, with the publication of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality , penis envy was originally a term coined to describe the mental process he believed occurred in girls as they resolved the psychological conflict required to move from the phallic stage to the latency stage.
Soon after the libidinal shift to the penis, the child develops her first sexual impulses towards her mother. The girl realizes that she is physically not equipped to have a sexual relationship with her mother, as she has a clitoris and vagina, rather than a penis.
She desires a penis, and the power that it represents. This is described as penis envy. She sees the solution as obtaining her father’s penis.
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