Word: penises
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In fact, most of the male characters come off poorly in The Thorn Birds. A fairly typical sentence runs: "She eyed his flaccid penis, snorting with laughter." The ambitious men are silly and the steady ones are inconsequential. Meggie's eight brothers either die or disappear into the woodwork...
In the city of Muzaffarnagar, 70 miles north of Delhi, vasectomy camps handled between 1,200 and 1,800 cases a day. Each operation took five to ten minutes, and there was often no follow-up when the patient suffered postoperative bleeding, infection or even tetanus. The state quota for...
Other articles in the journal play down the importance of the castration complex, which Freud believed always preceded the Oedipus complex; he felt that the drive to love and bear children arises from woman's sense of being mutilated, her feeling of loss. Psychiatrist Henri Parens, for one, reports...
Thus female love can no longer be considered a defense or compensation for a lost penis. Other writers doubt that female gender identity-a child's sense of being a girl-stems entirely from a sense of castration and penis envy.
Though these revisions are small and perhaps arcane to the nonanalyst, they erode the idea that penis envy is the dominant, devastating factor in female experience. In fact, Clower suggests that there will be more changes when Freudians digest the mass of data accumulated in recent years about sexuality and...