Female Sexuality : The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies (Paperback)

Preface -- Introduction -- Contributions to the Masculinity Complex in Women -- The Castration Complex -- Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex -- Origins and Growth of Object Love -- The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction -- The Flight from Womanhood: The Masculinity-Complex in Women, as Viewed by Men and Women -- A Contribution to the Problem of Libidinal Development of the Genital Phase in Girls -- The Genesis of the Feminine Super-Ego -- The Early Development of Female Sexuality -- Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict -- The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women -- Womanliness as a Masquerade -- The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women -- The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex -- On Female Homosexuality -- The Dread of Woman: Observations on a Specific Difference in the Dread Felt by Men and Women Respectively for the Opposite Sex -- The Denial of the Vagina: a Contribution to the Problem of the Genital Anxieties Specific to Women -- Passivity, Masochism and Femininity -- Early Female Sexuality