The first volume of its kind, this edited collection brings together classic and recent texts in psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory to examine the concepts of gender and envy. Bringing to light the ways in which our with the Freudian concept of penis envy has both revealed and obscured fundamental psychological insights, the essays also form bridges across many disciplines and schools of psychological thought. From foundational works by Freud, Klein, and Horney to the cur rect scholarship of Jessica Benjamin and Marjorie Garber, Gender and Envy brings together a library of critical thinking on the ongoing discussion of envy, gender, and psychoanalysis.