Male VS Female Oedipal Development

female

FEMALE/MALE?

6 months: begins to view the breast as more positive than negative = sees mother full of good things

female

FEMALE/MALE?

develop pos rs with father's penis and fantasizes that father will fill child’s body with babies

female

FEMALE/MALE?

has a positive rs with both parents

female

FEMALE/MALE?

less ideal circumstances:

fantasize abt stealing father's penis and babies from mother

female

FEMALE/MALE?

principal anxiety & penis envy

principle anxiety

fear that the inside of body has been injured by mother

principle anxiety

alleviated only when she gives birth to a healthy baby

penis envy

stems from the little girl's wish to internalize her father's penis and to receive a baby from him

male

FEMALE/MALE?

during early months, shifts some oral desires from mother's breast to father's penis

male

FEMALE/MALE?

early: adopts passive homosexual attitude toward father

male

FEMALE/MALE?

later: adopts heterosexual relationship with mother

passive homosexual position

prerequisite for the boy's development of a healthy heterosexual relationship with his mother

passive homosexual position

position which is the reason why boy has no fear that his father will castrate him

oral-sadistic impulses

developed toward his father and wants to bite off his penis and to murder him

castration anxiety

what oral-sadistic impulses arouse + fear that father will retaliate against him

oedipus complex

partially resolves male's castration anxiety