The few pages of the book should not mislead anyone, the castration complex could only be explained so simply (thanks to the success of the translator) and fully. Although he openly stated that he agreed with Freud’s theory, he did not hesitate to add the views of other important psychoanalysts to his book.
He compared the views of not only Freud, but also great psychoanalysts such as Klein, Lacan, Winnicott, Ferenczi, and presented his own interpretation. being castrated; examined actual castration manifestations in the light of biology and anthropology, and examined the role that important civilizations focused on castration. He showed how the castration complex does not only occur on children, neurotics, primitives, but also on civilized civilizations and artistic people. He has included the development of the castration complex in the early genital stage in his book.
He enriched his book by including the difference between boys and girls in the phallic period and their situation in adulthood, by including various theorists, and made comments on the development of sexual identity, their resistance in therapy, perspective on feminists, the place of incest prohibition in primitive and contemporary religions and today’s communities, and the solution of the Oedipus problem.
