# penis envy

> in Freudian psychoanalysis, the female psychosexual developmental stage when young girls experience anxiety upon realizing that they lack a penis; begins the transition from attachment to the mother to competition with the mother for the father

**Wikidata**: [Q738728](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q738728)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Quora