The Narcissistic Woman: Freud and Girard—by Sarah Kofman (1980)

/ gynocentrism

The following Freudian theory detailed by Sarah Kofman describes men relinquishing infantile narcissism as children, while culture lets women retain it into adulthood, which men then envy and live vicariously through women.

This description seems to capture an inner psychological mechanism that arose and grew more prevalent with the invention of romantic chivalry.


SOURCE: The Narcissistic Woman: Freud and Girard (1980) – by Sarah Kofman

See also:
– Infantile Narcissism Retained: A Structured Checklist for Adult Assessment
– The Narcissistic Life-Cycle of Women in Contemporary Gynocentric Culture (2006)