Masturbation fantasies in a prelatency girl: early female body fantasy conflicts as a major determinant in the experience of primary femininity.
Material from a child-analytic case is presented demonstrating the way in which a girl created erotic fantasies from her understanding of bodily sensations and used those fantasies in masturbation. The material shows how analysis of early fantasies of this nature helps us to understand and follow a line of development of primary femininity in which core conflicts involving urethral sphincter, periurethral, and bladder sensations combine with genital area sensations in the creation of anxiety over fears of genital injury. The clinical implication of anxiety as the dominant affect early in female development in this case is discussed.
Pelaccio
J
J
Faculty in Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychoanalysis, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, USA.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008418:Masturbation / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*