ABSTRACT
Sexual difference refers to recognition by the child of the difference between the sexes. To psychoanalysis, this recognition is related to the Oedipal Complex. In Freudian theory, when children acknowledge sexual difference they unconsciously identify with a way of becoming a body (as an archive) in dualistic terms: either masculine or feminine. The difference of sexes as Freud thought of it in Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes (1925) is enabled by an anatomic difference between men and women represented by the penis where men have it, and women do not.
