
Penis Envy
Why Theory
Is There a Penis Enemy?
Roxanne Jones: "No one, not even the guy with the biggest dick, can ever fully live up to the ideals of phallic power" That's exactly why men can experience penis envy just as easily as women. She talks about Lacan's deliteralizing of Freud's notion of penis envy in a TED Talk. And she pushes the idea into territory that I think is very new for people like me who are used to being told they're good enough but don't believe it.
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