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The little girl notices the strikingly visible and well-proportioned penis of a brother or playmate, immediately recognizing it as the superior counterpart of her own small and hidden little organ and from then on she is subject to penis envy. She has seen it, knows that she does not have it, and wants it. This is the way Freud describes penis envy in ''Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes'' (1925j).
The first allusion to envy in relation to the penis appears in ''On the Sexual Theories of''...
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