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by dtf 5793 days ago
This is (pop) evolutionary psychology, not psychoanalysis. Freud's reasoning on why men are driven to become entrepreneurs, magnates, architects, artists is that the boy, sensing that he has been robbed of the organs required to procreate internally, is driven to create externally to assuage his loss. It's the male equivalent of Freud's theory of "penis envy".