ABSTRACT
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.