… why Virgin Envy seemed to be an appropriate title for this volume. The complexity, confusion,
and persistence of Freud’s penis envy, we agreed, are akin in many ways to how our …

… in their own way, and Virgin Envy offers an additional perspective on how we might take up
these texts. While examining each chapter in Virgin Envy, I draw upon examples from these …

… Klein maintained that breast envy is constitutional and primary, which has evoked protest,
too. She wrote about universal envy of woman. Shame dynamics as instigators of envy are …

… you are a virgin and I have deflowered you, my poor angel?” (p. 76). … The first idea I have
had was to make her [Emma] into a virgin, living in the middle of the provinces, aging amidst …

… agrees with her cousin, a virgin, that the latter should secretly take her place in the conjugal
bed, in order that it not be discovered that the new queen is not a virgin. However, once the …

… envy of her neighbors (and vice versa), her envy of holy women such as Mary Magdalene,
and depictions of envy … Kempe strategically structures her book via the logic of envy, depicting …

… to acquire and USE the virgin item. The excessiveness, the … inherited from the past: the virgin
item's cultural value lies partly … and with absence or lack"; the virgin is "intact" but also she (…

This chapter demonstrates that Mitchison's decision to publish her eyewitness account in the
form of a diary was neither feminine caprice nor intellectual idleness, but instead a carefully …

… Thomas asserts: “If the soul of the Blessed Virgin had never incurred the stain of original sin,
… of the Blessed Virgin holds the highest place. Thomas maintains: “The Blessed Virgin did …

… —fourteen in all—Invidia (Envy) exemplifies the point if for no … the far-reaching importance
of envy's personifica for our … sh suffering in Hell and where envy has a greater presence than …