title: Primary femininity and female genital anxiety.
abstract: Primary femininity implies that female development proceeds along lines that generate anxiety about damage and loss similar to the fears of castration that trouble males. The female fears are classified as fear of painful penetration, fear of loss of pleasure, and fear of loss of procreative function. The first two fears are illustrated with clinical material showing the ways in which they manifest themselves in adult women.
authors.affiliation: New York Freudian Society, USA.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001009:Anxiety, Castration / Q000523:psychology; D004414:Dyspareunia / Q000523:psychology; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D005836:Genitalia, Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D008297:Male; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*