ABSTRACT
A key to understanding Sigmund Freud's perspective is that he saw sexuality in terms of the evolutionary value system of procreation. The author made her basic differentiation between male and female accordingly. In 1925, she thought of the vagina as a potential 'duplication' of the woman's self and talked about how the penis could 'develop into an erogenous zone before the development of its sexual function'. The woman's relation to the child not only continues the bond to her sexual partner but also revives the love for her father. The newborn child is at the same time the recipient of its mother's ambivalences. The conflict of ambivalence is expressed in the feeling that the object that has been incorporated into the body must be expelled again. The attitude of ambivalence to the object peculiar to the sadistic-anal phase also manifests itself in numerous symptoms of pregnancy.
