ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that the "castration" or "masculinity complex" of women that he certainly met clinically occurs in a number of women with particular problems but is not part of the general female development. He believes that it was S. Freud's two analyses of his daughter Anna that led him to conclude that this was a problem for women in general and to change his longheld theory of the Oedipus complex. The first critique of Freud's new theory of female sexuality was by Karen Horney, of Berlin. Horney saw "primary penis envy" in the girl as ubiquitous and inevitable as part of children's envious feelings about the parental couple and their mutual sexuality. "Secondary penis envy" or the "masculinity complex" that Freud described she saw as a defensive organization against an oedipal attachment to father as the primary love-object.
