Laufer M E
Int J Psychoanal. 1982;63(Pt 3):295-302.
The significance of the role played by masturbation in the female is examined from a developmental point of view in order to question the assumption, often made, that female masturbation has the same normal significance as masturbation for the male. In order to do so, the difference between attitudes to male and female masturbation is defined as a difference in attitude to the use of the hand for masturbatory activity and is related to the observation that it is that activity that female children give up post-oedipally and again in post-puberty. The unconscious meaning of the hand, as identified with the mother's active handling of the child's body, is examined to show that masturbation is needed by the child to internalize a positive narcissistic cathexis of the body as well as a means of separating from the mother's body. The continued use of the hand during adolescence and adulthood by the girl or woman is then seen as a defensive means of maintaining a positive relationship to her own sexual body once the girl's body has become identified with that of her mother. The failure of this defence when used by the girl as a means to maintain a positive relationship to her own sexual body is seen as leading to the unconsciously determined need to attack her body, as can be observed clinically in those adolescents who physically attack their body.
从发展的角度审视自慰在女性中所起作用的重要性，旨在质疑一种常见的假设，即女性自慰与男性自慰具有相同的正常意义。为此，将对男性和女性自慰态度的差异定义为对手用于自慰活动的态度差异，并与以下观察结果相关联：女童在俄狄浦斯期之后以及青春期后再次放弃了这种活动。对与母亲积极抚触孩子身体相关联的手的无意识意义进行审视，以表明孩子需要通过自慰来内化对身体的积极自恋投注以及作为与母亲身体分离的一种方式。随后，女孩或女性在青春期及成年期持续使用手自慰，被视为一旦女孩的身体被认同为与其母亲的身体相同时，维持与自身性身体积极关系的一种防御方式。当女孩将这种防御作为维持与自身性身体积极关系的手段而失败时，被视为会导致无意识地产生攻击自己身体的需求，这在临床上可以观察到那些对自己身体进行身体攻击的青少年身上。
