revealing overview of Freud's personality theory. Beale point out both

strengths and weaknesses of his answer to the questions of "Why" and "How"

in gender development, but still leaves a chance for a reader to make up

her/his own mind about whether or not to accept Freud's theory. It is

relatively easy, however, to find oneself torn between openheartedly going

along with Freud's idea about the existence of a dynamic system (or libido)

in us, and reacting against the ease and assurance with which Freud writes

about castration fear in boys and penis envy in girls.

Freud's view of personality as a dynamic system of psychological

energy is a very complex, yet insightful approach to the development of

personality. The nature of the id, ego, and superego, and the psychosexual

stages that these three structures focus on during a course of one'

but rather whether there is a reason for us to believe that girls

development. His generalization seems to underestimate the impact of

her/his mother. Unable to cognitively create an explanation to a new,

girls) will know how to protect them from the tension. If we perceive male

(according to Freud) to the awareness of their own genitals. If boys have

way in order for nature to secure the existence of human species.

anxiety will build up an emotional tension.

child to seek identification with one of the parents might come not from

I would agree with Freud's statement that children undergo a certain

necessarily have to play out their confusion through envy, whereas boys have

majority of children are genetically predisposed to act in that particular

reason to fear castration, why would girls not fear penis "implantation,"

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