According to Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development, girls experience penis envy in the <u>phallic</u> stage
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The stage of development is the most important phase in human life. Passing each stage of development properly will shape the individual into a fully healthy person. In the world of Psychology, there are various theories about human development. One of the best known is the Psychosexual theory formulated by Sigmund Freud.
One of the stages of psychosexual development is the Phallic stage where at this stage the child begins to like to hold and pay attention to his own genitals, he starts to get pleasure from his sexual organs.
At this stage various psychological developments occur, especially sociopsychological related to the pattern of parental treatment of children. The development is different between boys and girls.
Following is one of the sociopsychological developments that occurred at the Phallic stage:
Penis Envy At this stage, girls feel jealous of boys for not having a penis. This jealousy comes accompanied by feelings of dissatisfaction and disliking yourself because they think that there is a deficiency in him.
Friendly attitude and affection from a mother will help girls to pass this stage well. But if not, then the child will experience difficulties in carrying out his role as a woman and could even protest or even reject her femininity.
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Class : middle school
Subject : social studies
Keywords : psychosexual, sociopcychological, penis envy, sexual organ
