Penis Envy Definition

Less excess, more edification. They criticize the sociosexual theory for privileging heterosexual sexual activity and penile penetration in defining women's "mature state of sexuality". Thus, the psychoanalytic concept of penis envy , Sandler's "innate penis schema," Rangell's employment of it at that point in his paper on castration, even--or especially--a female's fantasy of her own genital lack, may represent the evocation of a fantasy of absence in order to screen out a presence that would arouse anxiety.