That's the point - women don't. Women were viewed as being morally 
inferior, so the question was, how did they get that way? Answer, they 
don't go through the Oedipus complex, so they have a weaker superego than 
men do. It's a bit more complex that that, but that is the basic answer.



>I know this is true and teach this to my classes.  I do have a question, 
>however.  What is the Freudian mechanism for females developing their 
>superego and feminine identity since they have no counterpart to the 
>Oedipus conflict?
>
>Jeff Nagelbush
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Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
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