1. Women's Realities
... a castration complex. Helene Deutsch proposed that the triad of passivity, masochism, and narcissism is a natural concomitant of female biology. She suggests that because girls do not possess an "active" sexual organ, their "active" impulses must be inhibited and transformed into passive aims. Women are naturally suited to be "acted upon" rather than to take action, and the reward for passivity is love ... inconspicuous and dependent. Thus, Horney's explanation of "feminine psychology" suggests that social change might be able to remedy traits deemed undesirable. Rather than attributing...
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