Nancy Burke is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School, a Staff Psychologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and a private practitioner in Chicago.

General Introduction

PART I--The Emergence of aPoint of Tension

Introduction
1. SigmundFreud--Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes
2. Karen Horney--The Flight from Womanhood
3. Melanie Klein--Early Stages of the Oedipus Complex

PART II--Penis Envy:Foundation or Delusion?

Introduction
4. John A.Friedman--Gender and Envy in Freud's Discourse
5. LuceIrigaray--The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry (excerpt from Speculum of the Other Woman)
6. MariaTorok--The Significance of Penis Envy in Women
7.Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel--The Female Castration Complex and Penis Envy (excerpt)
8. Jessica Benjamin--Father and Daughter: Identification with Difference--A Contribution to Gender Heterodoxy

PART III--TheDebate Broadens

Introduction
9. IreneFast--Developments in Gender Identity: The Original Matrix (Introduction to Gender Identity)
10. Eva FederKittay--Mastering Envy: From Freud's Narcissistic Wounds to Bettelheim's Symbolic Wounds to a Vision of Healing
11. Christiane Olivier--In the Beginning Was Freud (and other excerpts from Jocasta's Children)
12.Sigmund Freud--Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia, and Homosexuality
13. SusanKavaler-Adler--Vaginal Core or Vampire Mouth: The Visceral Level of Envy in Women: An Exploration of the Protosymbolic Politics of Object Relations

PARTIV--Gender and Envy through theLife-Span

Introduction
14. RobertMay--Reflections on Envy, with Special Attention to the College Years
15. Peter Shabad--The Evil Eye of Envy: Parental Possessiveness and the Rivalry for a New Beginning
16. David Gutmann--Male Envy Across the Life-Span

PART V--Gender and Envy in Social andCultural Life

Introduction
17. TeresaBrennan--The Foundational Fantasy (excerpt from HistoryAfter Lacan)
18. Marjorie Garber--Fetish Envy
19.Clayton Koelb--Castration Envy: Nietzche and the Figure of Woman