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Discussion: Freud, going against history?
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Freud, going against history?
Apr 12 2007, 4:41 PM EDT
I think Freud tends to be quite hypocritical when he depicts women. He states that psychoanalysis alone couldn't define a woman, but then describes how both men and women develop and come in being. He clearly believes there are many differences between men and women, but he argues that both sexes are first in love with their mother and women quickly grow out of that stage and begin to "love" their fathers. How do women go through that first stage of loving their mother's and on to loving their father's? I don't think his theory on how women are "biologically destined" to live in a feminine stage has enough evidence. Going along with that theory, I also don't agree with his theory on how women are born bisexual. Is he just going against "the Oedipus complex"?
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