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<blockquote>A further characteristic of the [[sexuality ]] of early [[childhood ]] is that the [[female ]] [[organ ]] as yet plays no part in it-the [[child ]] has not yet discovered it. All the accent falls on the [[male ]] organ, and all interest is concentrated on whether it is [[present ]] or not.<ref>{{QLA}} Ch. 4</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>If we penetrate deeply into the [[neuroses ]] of [[women]], we not infrequently meet with the [[repressed ]] [[wish ]] to possess a [[penis]]. We call this [[infantile ]] wish "penis-[[envy]]" and include it within the [[castration ]] [[complex]]....<ref>{{TIAE}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>We ascribe a castration-complex to the female sex as well as to the male. That complex has not the same [[content ]] in girls as in boys. The castration-complex in the [[girl]], as well, is started by the [[sight ]] of the [[genital ]] organs of the [[other ]] sex. She immediately notices the [[difference]], and-it must be admitted-its [[significance]]. She feels herself at a great disadvantage, and often declares that she would "like to have something like that too," and falls a [[victim ]] to ''penis-envy'', which leaves ineradicable traces on her [[development ]] and [[character]]-[[formation]], and, even in the most favorable instances, is not overcome without a great expenditure of [[mental ]] [[energy]]. That the girl recognizes the fact that she [[lacks ]] a penis, does not mean that she accepts its [[absence ]] lightly. On the contrary, she clings for a long [[time ]] to the [[desire ]] to get something like it, and believes in that possibility for an extraordinary [[number ]] of years; and even at a time when her [[knowledge ]] of [[reality ]] has long since led her to abandon the fulfilment of this desire as [[being ]] quite unattainable, [[analysis ]] proves that it still persists in the [[unconscious]], and retains a considerable charge of energy .... The discovery of her castration is a turning-point in the [[life ]] of the girl. [[Three ]] lines of development diverge from it; one leads to [[sexual ]] [[inhibition ]] or to [[neurosis]], the second to a modification of character in the [[sense ]] of [[masculinity ]] complex, and the [[third ]] to normal [[femininity ]] .... At first the girl looks on her castration as a personal misfortune, and only gradually extends it to other females, and eventually to her [[mother]].<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The small girl feels sensitive over tbe [[lack ]] of a sex organ equal to the boy's, and holds herself to be inferior on that account; and that this "penis-envy" gives rise to a [[whole ]] series of characteristic [[feminine ]] reactions.<ref>{{QLA}} Ch. 4</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The girl holds her mother [[responsible ]] for her lack of a penis, and never forgives her for that deficiency. <ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The wish with which the girl turns to her [[father ]] is, no [[doubt]], ultimately the wish for the penis, which her mother has refused her and which she now expects from her father. The feminine [[situation ]] is, however, only established when the wish for the penis is replaced by the wish for a child -the child taking the [[place ]] of the penis, in accordance with the old [[symbolic ]] equation .... Her [[happiness ]] is great indeed when this desire for a child one day finds [[real ]] fulfilment; but especially is this so if the child is a little boy who brings the longed-for penis with him.<ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote>