Psychoanalytic TheoryGynocentric Approaches

Psychoanalytic TheoryGynocentric Approaches

Phallocentrism?Phallocentrism? Phallocentrism?Phallocentrism?

KEY CONCEPTS• Freud’s Personality Outcomes

• What Boys Get . . . goodies galore• What Girls Get . . . . misery and masochism

• Criticisms• Evidence Difficult To Gain• Anti-female Bias That Suggests Gender Is Fixed And Stable

• Gynocentric Approaches• Karen Horney’s Womb Envy• Dorothy Dinnerstein• Nancy Chodorow’s Object-Relations Theory

• Also considered a “detachment” theory• “Me and mom are one”• Girls have a sex-role model . . . oriented to attachment/empathy• Boys’ sex-role model often absent . . . distaste for close relationships

Personality OutcomesPersonality Outcomes

WHAT BOYS GET•Masculine Identification•Misogyny•A Strong Superego

WHAT GIRLS GET•Feminine Identification•Misogyny•A Weak Superego•Inferiority Complex•Jealous Personality•Rejection Of Clitoral Sexuality•Masochism•Compulsive Child-Bearing•Obsession With Looks

KEY CONCEPTS• Freud’s Personality Outcomes

• What Boys Get . . . goodies galore• What Girls Get . . . . misery and masochism

• Criticisms• Evidence Difficult To Gain• Anti-female Bias That Suggests Gender Is Fixed And Stable

• Gynocentric Approaches• Karen Horney’s Womb Envy• Dorothy Dinnerstein’s Mommy Power• Nancy Chodorow’s Object-Relations Theory

• Also considered a “detachment” theory• “Me and mom are one”• Girls have a sex-role model . . . oriented to attachment/empathy• Boys’ sex-role model often absent . . . distaste for close relationships