ABSTRACT
This chapter maintains that the female equivalent of the masculine disturbance of impotence, namely frigidity, was far more frequent, though Sigmund Freud had not paid a great deal of attention to it. For understanding of woman's greater disposition to sexual frigidity we must once again recall the difficulties of puberty. The reason why frigidity is commoner than impotence lies in the predominance of the psychical element in the sexual life of woman. Psychoanalysis has shown that man creates higher cultural products by the sublimation of unused sexual driving forces and thus achieves satisfaction of ego tendencies at the cost of the sexual drives. It is a very striking and psychologically unexplained fact that frigidity among women is much more frequent than is psychic impotence, the corresponding disturbance among men.
