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→Sigmund Freud
===Infantile Theory===
[[Freud]] first describes the [[castration complex]] in 1908.
The [[castration complexchild]] was first elaborated by -- on discovering the [[Freudbiology|anatomical]] in [[sexual difference|difference between the sexes]] -- the [[presence]] or [[absense]] of the [[penis]] -- makes the assumption that this [[sexual difference|difference]] is due to the [[female]]'s [[penis]] having been cut off.<ref>{{F}} "On the Sexual Theories of Children. 1908.[[SE]] IX. p.207</ref>
In his view, the [[castration complex]] is the moment when one "infantile theory" -- that every [[human]] [[being]] has a [[penis]] -- is replaced by a new one -- that [[female]]s have been [[castrated]].
The consequences of this new infantile theory are different in the [[boy]] and in the [[girl]].
