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>There Was a Child Went Forth<, Commentary on Paper by Steven Stern

  • This paper reinterprets the historical problem of penis envy, that is, the girl's wish to be masculine, in terms of a developmental need to identify with father. Many of the problems posed by earlier analyses of femininity can be clarified by recognizing that before the girl >turns< to the oedipal father as love object, she looks to the rapprochement father for identification. Identification is not merely an internal structure, it is a relationship in which the subject recognizes herself or himself in the other. In rapprochement, love of the father, who symbolically represents the outside world, takes the place of the practicing toddler's >love affair with the world.< This identificatory love of the father, initially noticed in boys by Freud and later authors, is often frustrated by the father's absence or inability to recognize the daughter. This frustrated longing takes the penis as its symbol of likeness. The pre-oedipal over-inclusive phase of identification with the other sex parent is not superceded by the oedipal constellation, but is integrated with it. Thus identification becomes an important basis of the love of the other: it is not so much the opposite of object love as an important precursor and ongoing constituent of it. Case material illustrates the multiple possibilities of identificatory love and use of phallic symbolism to represent them.

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Author:Jessica Benjamin
Parent Title (English):Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 01 (1991), pp. 277-299.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1991
Release Date:2017/11/20
Format:xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage
IdNo:Benjamin_J_1991
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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