The Psychic Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes

Freud's writing on female sexuality is called some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes. He writes about this extensively elsewhere, including a year later in an essay that we will talk about on another day. The short version here is that there is the difference in the threat of castration. And so she moves, Freud says slips is the word that shows up here. She slips from the desire for the penis to the desire for a baby.

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