The death trauma refers to a human being’s first awareness that he or she has to die.

This paper reexamines Freud’s theories and the views of his critics, primarily feminists, and attempts to point the way to a viable theory of female development.

Gender narcissism develops in reaction to feelings of inferiority about one’s gender and might be defined as excessive love or concern for one’s gender, one’s genitals, or one’s gender identity, and negative feeling about the opposite sex—generally involving fear, disgust, resentment or competitiveness.