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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PENIS ENVY

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Penis envy is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PENIS ENVY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Penis envy

Penis envy in Freudian psychoanalysis refers to the theorized reaction of a girl during her psychosexual development to the realization that she does not have a penis. Freud considered this realization a defining moment in the development of gender and sexual identity for women — the parallel reaction in boys to the realization that women do not have a penis being castration anxiety. Freud's theories regarding psychosexual development, and in particular the phallic stage, were rejected, criticized or challenged by other psychoanalysts, such as Karen Horney, Otto Fenichel and Ernest Jones, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, Juliet Mitchell and philosophers or sociologists such as Clara Thompson, Betty Friedan, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous. In contemporary culture, the term sometimes refers inexactly or metaphorically to women who are presumed to wish they were men. The psychoanalytical concept of penis envy is unrelated to "small penis syndrome" which is anxiety caused by the belief one's penis is too small.

Definition of penis envy in the English dictionary

The definition of penis envy in the dictionary is a Freudian concept in which envy of the penis is postulated as the cause for some of the characteristics found in women.

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Synonyms and antonyms of penis envy in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «penis envy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PENIS ENVY

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The translations of penis envy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «penis envy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

阴茎羡慕
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la envidia del pene
570 millions of speakers

English

penis envy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लिंग ईर्ष्या
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

القضيب الحسد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

зависть к пенису
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inveja do pênis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লিঙ্গ ঈর্ষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´envie du pénis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penis iri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Penisneid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ペニス羨望
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남근 선망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penis envy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dương vật ghen tị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆண்குறி பொறாமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लिंग मत्सर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Penis kıskanılacak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

invidia del pene
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zazdrość o penisa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заздрість до пеніса
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

penis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φθόνο του πέους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

penis afguns
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

penisavund
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

penis misunnelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of penis envy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PENIS ENVY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PENIS ENVY» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENIS ENVY»

Discover the use of penis envy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to penis envy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Penis Envy
3. THE. BY-PRODUCTS. OF. PENIS. ENVY! Give a woman a job and she grows balls. ~ Jack Gelber Now we come to the serious stuff! We mean the chaos, mayhem and confusion that penis envy causes those who suffer from it. Keep in mind ...
Peter Andrew Sacco, Jennifer Schott, 2008
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The New Sex Therapy: Active Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions
prominent in little girls from three to five years of age; if it persists, penis envy often leads to manifest sexual dysfunction later in life. According to this formulation, the girl's subsequent ability to achieve a healthy psychosexual adjustment is ...
Helen Singer Kaplan, 1974
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Gender and Envy
Of Freud's writings, his essay "Female Sexuality" (1931l has as much claim to represent his ideas ahout penis envy as the essay included here, and in many respects is the richer for its suggestions ahout the pre- oedipal relationship hetween ...
Nancy Burke, 1998
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Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing ...
Second, Freud held that, regardless of what their adult psychosexual balances are, all women experience as girls some degree of "penis envy" when they discover that males possess what they lack. "Penis envy," Freud argued, reinforces girls ...
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 1998
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Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
the sexual and from his representations of sexual desire. From his projected, reflected auto-representations, shall we say? If woman had desires other than " penis envy," this would call into question the unity, the uniqueness, the simplicity of ...
Robyn R. Warhol, Diane Price Herndl, 1997
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The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis
Episodic for some women, for others "penis envy" constitutes the very center of the therapeutic process. The exacerbated wish to possess that which women believe they are deprived of by fate — or by the mother — expresses a basic ...
Nicolas Abraham, Maria Torok, Nicholas T. Rand, 1994
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The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
Of special interest are his theory of "penis envy" and his views of the functions of envy in a social group, as dealt with in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921). The Cognitive Comparison Model Freud's views on envy may be ...
Edward Erwin, 2002
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On Freud's "femininity"
First, that a girls' entry into the persephonal/triadic stage is not motivated by penis envy and accompanying disappointment and hostility towards her mother. Penis envy and hostility exist as important aspects of female development, of course, ...
Leticia Glocer Fiorini, Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, 2010
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Male Envy: The Logic of Malice in Literature and Culture
Since, for Freud, to lack a penis is the sine qua non of femaleness, envy is inescapably built into female identity — a notion that feminists have perhaps dealt with sufficiently. For Male Envy, by contrast, penis envy is not the reaction of female to ...
Mervyn Nicholson, 1999
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Envy and Gratitude
Freud's discovery of penis-envy in women and its link with aggressive impulses was a basic contribution to the understanding of envy. When penis-envy and castration wishes are strong, the envied object, the penis, is to be destroyed and the ...
Melanie Klein, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENIS ENVY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term penis envy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Let's talk about how True Detective Season 2 is splitting opinions
Does she have penis envy? And why introduce a female character in the opening episode half-dressed, post-sex? The storyline, this time ... «Entertainment.ie, Jul 15»
2
Setting the record straight on bisexuality
If I had a penny for when people asked if I don't have penis envy... A girlfriend broke up with me because she imagined I could possibly ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
3
Alamon: Silence of the lambs
I used not to mind this thinking that any assumed inferiority of the soft sciences could be brushed off as a case of positivist-penis envy. «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
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Examining the Queer Voice in Do I Sound Gay? doc
In his own blithe way, he gets at a dissatisfaction gay men feel that may be greater than penis envy. It takes many forms — class, erotics, ... «Out Magazine, Jul 15»
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6 Surprising, Bizarre Facts You Didn't Know About Freud
In a truly bizarre twist to his theories about how adults get stuck in their lives (through women's penis envy or some other issue that must be ... «PsychCentral.com, Jul 15»
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Is Bohemian Grove the Real-Life Secret Society Behind True …
... self-hatred surrounding his homosexuality, to Ray Velcoro's utter failure as a father and husband, to the penis envy on Ani Bezzerides (what, ... «Vanity Fair, Jul 15»
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Michael Oren's Terrible Case Of Obama-Envy
There's penis envy and then there's whatever condition Michael Oren is afflicted with. I call it Obama-envy, and it consists of an outsized need to ... «Mintpress News, Jul 15»
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Jackie Collins Dishes On Grindr, Closeted Hollywood Stars …
It sounds like penis envy. I think they're wringing the life out of this series. Do we really care about his point of view now? If that's what turns ... «pride source.com, Jun 15»
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Adam Scott has penis envy in 'The Overnight'
So much for penis envy. Adam Scott's new comedy, The Overnight, makes 'size' issues a sight gag in an incisive look at competition and ... «Toronto Sun, Jun 15»
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The Overnight Obsesses on Penis Envy
Jason Schwartzman's 5 o'clock shadow and Groucho eyebrows makes him a perfectly comical bisexual lothario in The Overnight. As Kurt, a ... «Out Magazine, Jun 15»

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