The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings

PART ONE: THE ENIGMA AND THE VEIL
1. The Battle of the Sexes 11
2. Speculation, Observation 16
3. Freud\'s Delays 20
4. The Other 33
5. An Exciting Enigma 36
Man\'s privilege 37
Woman\'s inaccessibility 39
The suspended tongue 42
Shame 48
Narcissistic woman 50
Criminal or hysteric 65
Strong sex or weak sex? 68
The sublation of mothers 71
Penis envier, prostitute, homosexual, fetishist 82
\"The Throne and Altar are in danger\" 89
Bedrock 92 

PART TWO: FREUD INVESTIGATES
1. The Interest in the Enigma of Woman 101
2. The Immediate Certainty of Difference 106
3. The Indecision and Aporia Introduced by the Science of Anatomy 109
4. Psychology: Its Sterility and Impotence 114
5. Psychoanalysis: The Child Becomes a Woman 122 
The original bisexuality 122
The development of sexuality: the difference between girls and boys 131
The identity of the sexes in the early phases of libidinal development 133
Puberty: the girl\'s two supplementary tasks 143
The hierarchical reversal 143 
The change of object 144
The girl\'s libidinal relations with her mother 148
Active/passive, masculine/feminine 148
Ambivalence 158
Freud\'s exaggeration 161
The transformations of the mother-daughter relation 163
The list of accusations 164
The specific factor: penis envy 167
A critical turning point: the discovery of castration 178
The desire for the father and the establishment of femininity 190 
The girl\'s Oedipus complex 199
The girl\'s masculinity complex 202
The consequences of bisexuality 206
Rhapsodic supplement 210