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Samuel Slipp's paper, “A Critique of Freud and Feminine Psychology,” was an attempt to show that Freud's personal problems with his mother affected his theories of feminine psychology. Freud's self-analysis was an important basis for many psychoanalytic theories. He did not analyze his preoedipal relationship to his mother and nanny so he did not include the preoedipal period in the body of psychoanalysis.
Slipp asserted that Freud repressed his preoedipal sexual and aggressive fantasies because he feared loss of his mother. He never achieved sufficient differentiation from his mother throughout the remainder of his life. This narcissistic woman made Freud her favorite child, and he, in turn, had a lifelong, ambivalent, symbiotic relationship with her. Unable to see his mother's pathology, Freud generalized and accepted the stereotype that narcissism and exploitative passivity were characteristic of all women.
Slipp presented a detailed statement of the current psychoanalytic theory of the preoedipal period showing where Freud had failed to see many aspects that are today recognized as important for child development. In a similar fashion he described current theory of femininity, especially emphasizing that little girls' femininity is inborn, a primary endowment, not a flight from disappointed masculinity. He also cited psychoanalytic and direct observational studies that show that superego development in females is similar to that in males and that female superegos are not deficient as Freud had believed.
“Homophobia and Sexism” by Richard C. Friedman discussed the term homophobia and demonstrated that such behavior is really more paranoid than it is phobic in its manifestations and dynamics. Irrational negative views of homosexuality occur for many different reasons among many different types of people.
Friedman discussed the antihomosexual bias among males and cited many studies of young boys in group situations such as Little League teams that showed how toughness,