Monday 1 March 2010

Feminism and the Oedipus Complex

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Originally Posted by marche View Post

Nancy Chodorow noted that Freud assumes that males possess physical superiority and that a woman’s personality is inevitably determined by her lack of a penis. Like Freud, but for different reasons, Chodorow emphasizes that the female Oedipal crisis is not resolved completely, unlike the male crisis: a girl cannot and does not completely reject her mother in favour of men, but continues her relationship of attachment to her.

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So, what do you guys think?


I think the Freud stuff is complete and utter drivel. Even the Millon Psi Cops have the Passive-Aggression as a cross gender sign, whereas the Perseus System has it a political hierarchical event.

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