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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The supposed wish of a girl or woman to have a penis, postulated in Freudian psychoanalytic theory as causing psychic conflict that drives female psychosexual development and results in psychological disorders if not resolved.
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- noun psychoanalysis The alleged
unconscious desire of a woman to possess apenis .
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- noun (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity
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Translating German Penisneid (in Freud).
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