Severin M’s Reviews > The Penguin Freud Reader > Status Update

I skipped over the wolfman case for now to read Mourning & Melancholia, Introduction of Narcissism, and Hysteria/Bisexuality. Going to shelf this one for now so I can read Civ & Discontents. Will come back later to it but I think I've got what I need for Lacan for Edelman.

"The boy enters the Oedipal phase: he begins to manipulate his penis whilst fantasizing about using it in some sexual way on his mother - until he sees that girls have no penis and this, combined with a castration threat, causes him to experience the greatest trauma of his life..."

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