ABSTRACT
Following the First World War, there was a major move for the advancement of women, and for them to become professionally qualified. At the time, the newness of psychoanalysis made it more open to women than the older professions were. Women psychoanalysts began to take questions about female sexuality as their field of enquiry. This chapter emphasizes the fact that it was just this paper of Freud's which helped people to understand the castration complex in women. Ernest Jones's type of homosexual woman whose aim is to obtain recognition of her masculinity from men. This claim is simply a displacement of the original sadistic claim that the desired object, nipple, milk, penis, should be instantly surrendered; secondarily, the need for recognition is largely a need for absolution. Her existence appears to be denied, though in truth it is only too much feared.
