The tender and attentive gaze of both the mother and the father acknowledging their baby girl's existence and gender, provides the basis for feminine narcissism. The constitution of femininity can be related to the “primary maternal” (F. Guignard) but also to the primary feminine (F. Guignard). The mother is also a woman and desires the father. Hence, the father assures the third party from the very beginning. The second important period corresponds to the resolution of the Oedipus complex. Femininity is a life time work to the extent that the woman has to symbolize her separation from the mother and elaborate the lack of penis.