From the penis to the womb: male sexuality

Debate over the issues surrounding female sexuality abated after the 1920s/

30s controversy, and did not revive until the 1960s, when feminism

generated a new wave of interest in the psychology of gender. In the

intervening years there had been some significant theoretical shifts in

British psychoanalysis and North American ego psychology. This chapter

focuses on changing theories about envy, the Oedipus complex, and the role

of the father in the male psyche, which I discuss in the light of my own

clinical work.