ABSTRACT
The Freudian conception is a phallo centric one, where women represent a sort of emasculated man, filled with an envious desire to possess a phallus which they had lost at some time in their lives, but could recover if circumstances were again favourable. For Sigmund Freud, the basic or narcissistic injury par excellence was represented by the woman’s lack of a penis, something which could be translated as a woman’s phallic longing, with the purpose of repairing or fulfilling her biological fault. Pathology and normality depended directly on the outcome of this form of equilibrium, where accumulation implied suffering and expulsion feelings of well-being. Libido was equivalent to sexual energy, and any great accumulation was translated into a large amount of anxiety, while any outlet chosen to release this pressure could be translated into different forms of pathology.
