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In the midst of the continuing controversy on the place of penis envy in psychoanalytic thinking, Satow presents two cases which she considers to show that penis envy consists of condensed derivatives of earlier conflicts usually narcissistic in nature. She believes that penis envy is not merely a regressive effort to resolve oedipal conflicts but also an attempt to resolve even earlier conflicts.