That's not a bad way of looking at things. It was all the identification that got to me - fair enough, he has a point when he says that the same-sex parent is the first role model for a child and they do try to emulate them, and girls to tend to play with dolls or 'babies', but the reasons behind the identification really bugged me. Does a young boy actually fear his father is going to castrate him to keep him away from his mother? Does a young girl actually think she has already been castrated? Does she really suffer from penis envy and substitute it with broodiness? And do girls actually have less well-developed superegos and morals than boys for this reason? I don't think so! This reasoning is what really lets Freud down in my opinion, and trying to say that women are less developed than men is the final straw!

I'm sorry to have ranted so far off burly topic, but it's really quite nice to be able to discuss things like this with other people who know what they're talking about ^_^

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