Are We Going to Get Beyond Penis Enemies?

The author argues that Freud does not say we will always be under the thumb of penis envy. And power is always articulating itself whether we try to get around it or not, she says. In fact, her whole point is this investment in the way these produced bad feelings have the energy to topple the mechanism that creates them. It's only sustained insofar as we don't avow the bad feelings and then start on the path of toppling that regime.