Sigmund Freud theorised that all women experience penis envy and seek to compensate for this inferiority complex by being exhibitionistic and narcissistic, focusing on irrational and trivial matters instead of being interested in building a just civilisation.
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However, in yet other countries, there is a social stigma attached to FtM crossplay : some, particularly those outside the cosplay community, suspect FtM crossplayers as having penis envy, being transgender, or having a lesbian sexual orientation.
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Counter-critics have responded that feminists misunderstand penis envy, which was not intended by Freud to refer literally to the envy of the male physical penis but to be understood as an abstract, evolving force in psychosexual development.
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Horney accepted that penis envy might occur occasionally in neurotic women, but stated that " womb envy " occurs just as much in men : Horney felt that men were envious of a woman's ability to bear children.
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Speaking of a possible motivation among " armchair television critics " on " Live With Regis & Kelly " in July, Rivera ventured : " I think it was basically penis envy, to tell you the truth ."
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He does this by " constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live though and fuse with the female . " Solanas rejects Freud's theory of penis envy, and argues that men have " pussy envy ".
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Speaking of a possible motivation among " armchair television critics " on " Live With Regis & amp; Kelly " in July, Rivera ventured : " I think it was basically penis envy, to tell you the truth ."
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Freud further proposed that boys and girls experience the complex differently : boys in a form of castration anxiety, girls in a form of penis envy; and that unsuccessful resolution of the complex might lead to neurosis, pedophilia, and homosexuality.
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In her influential paper " Women and Penis Envy " ( 1943 ), Clara Thompson reformulated the latter as " social " envy for the trappings of the ( then ) dominant gender, a sociological response to female subordination under patriarchy.
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But the point of the anthology, writes editor Fiona Giles in the introduction, is not to promote the myth of penis envy, but to reveal, " what women really think of the phallus as both anatomical object and cultural archetype ."
