...Maria Torok; Nicholas Rand MARIA TOROK TRANSLATED BY NICHOLAS RAND The Meaning of "Penis Envy" in Women (1963) Maria Torok's article, written in 1963 and first published in 1964, predates contemporaryfeminist theories offemale childhood development as well asfeminist critiques of the Freudian...

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... difference does it make? If pregnancy is aligned with mourning, or mourning with pregnancy, with a bringing in of an absent other, then a male pregnancy fathered by the mother is a response to a specific mourning, a specific trauma. Sigmund Freud explains that a girl is overcome with penis envy when she...

... of leaders, the archiving and transmitting of culture, this model does not work for the daughter. For in that symbolic order, no value, no meaning, no symbolically enviable possession/position is attributed to the maternal other, nothing to envy for which she might be killed in fantasy and then set up among...

..., mn: u of Minnesota p, 1989 . 171 -202. Klein, Melanie. Envy and Gratitude and Other Works, 1946-1963 . New York: MacMillan, 1975 . 176 -236. ____. “Mourning and Its Relation to Manic-Depressive States.” 1940. Love, Guilt, and Reparation and Later Works 1921-1945 . Ed. Hanna Segal. London...

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... York : Noonday , 1957 . Schor Naomi . “ This Essentialism Which Is Not One: Coming to Grips with Irigaray .” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1 . 2 ( 1989 ): 38 - 58 . Torok Maria . “ The Meaning of ‘Penis Envy’ in Women (1963) .” Trans. Rand Nicholas...

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... envy. It is the girl, who observes the anatomical difference between herself and little boys, who is preoccupied by the question of sexual distinction. Not finding the notion of penis envy compelling, I have, like others, regarded...

... not push the little boy into femininity; in fact it facilitates his repudiation of femininity. The break with the mother is a factor Freud insists upon but cannot adequately explain, and its intractability prompts him to propose his most notorious theory, penis-envy. In Freud's account, the recognition...

... of a "haremization effect" that challenges the time-honored interpolation of penis-envy at the heart of the sultan/seraglio model. In the harem, new forms of love, exote-ic eroticisms incubate and multiply. The representation of this transgressive female socius, sequestered and colonized, d fferences 209 but capable...

... rhetorical “we” (like the use I make of it now) rely on it? Yes. But the impulse to inclusion also runs a circuit of envy in all agitation about who and what is in, and who and what is not. With such jealousy, any drive for greater...

... as a fantasy compounded of castration anxiety, penis envy, and narcissism. Second, the actual rape, as it shifts from the purely specular to the tactile, with an accompanying revulsion/attraction, may best be approached by bringing to bear Irigaray's exposure of psychoanalytic phallocentrism and scopophilia...

.... There is a cluster of psychoanalytic terms that have proven to be a thorn in the side of all feminists, dating from the inception ofpsychoanalysis itself: the Oedipus complex, the castration complex, penis-envy, the status of the phallus, the paternal metaphor or Name of the Father, the symbolic order, and so...

... of homosexuals and heterosexuals as categories—Proust, in fact, speaks of “races”—and, here, as categories of men in particular. That exclusiveness accounts not only for the envy and fascination with which Charlus, Proust’s paradigmatic male homosexual, regards the members of the other group—in a relation...

...” ( “Analysis” 252 ). While the “repudiation of femininity” is a feature of all human life, it takes a different form in a man, where it appears as what Freud calls a “masculine protest” against a “passive or feminine attitude,” and in a woman, where it takes the form of “an envy for the penis...

... asks herself, in relation to the other, “Would she never cure herself of envying her?” (17)—and who pushes the conversation forward with further questions. In its final pages, the story moves into high gear with the dis...

... and ecological niche in which envy within the human realm replaces the carnal appetite of beasts.6 The fable is a repository of anxiety about changing social sta- tus, capturing in terms of animal species the relation between...

..., "Femininity," Freud describes weaving as the paradigmatic feminine cultural achievement. The passage is reproduced here in its entirety, both for its unfailing strangeness, and for its foundational status in figuring feminine "lack" through the unstable image of fabric. The effect of penis envy has a share...

..., The Irigaray Reader 47-52. 128 Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction Kaplan, E. Ann. Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. New York: Routledge, 1992. Klein, Melanie. "Envy and Gratitude." Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946-1963. New York: Delacorte, 1975...