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No, it's pretty much literally like "I had a desire to marry my mother for a brief weird period when I was a little girl, until I learned that I couldn't do tha
by Nav_Panel 6y ago
No, it's pretty much literally like "I had a desire to marry my mother for a brief weird period when I was a little girl, until I learned that I couldn't do that". It's not about "power in society" at all, it's about the genesis of gendered notions in the child which leads to shifting identifications and relationships with parents. As a result it is a feminist concern, but of an entirely different order.
And this is all in Freud himself! He was woke to gender!
- watwut 6y ago> I had a desire to marry my mother for a brief weird period when I was a little girl This is even dumber and only guy can think it is anything.
- Nav_Panel 6y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whatever you say (and to clarify, Lacan identified the literalism of the theory as a problem and abstracted the idea to the level of desire. The child wants whatever mommy desires, whatever will make her stick around, which may or may not be the literal penis. In many cases it isn't.)