TRN321H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Positive Liberty, Reality Principle, Existentialism
1 Mar 2018
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Not the body that biologists describe but the body as lived in by the subject. It is not nature that de nes women but she herself by dealing with nature on her own account in her emotional life. Words take on symbolic meaning in addition to their literal meaning. Freud: the libido is a mel experience when experienced by either man or women: oral, anal and then genital at which point the sexes become differentiated, two phases of sexual development for women. Penis envy as a symbol for the privileges boys/men enjoy. Determinism omits free choice which makes it impossible to understand why certain things came into being i. e. why incest is frowned upon in the rst place: the collective unconscious, freud: anatomy is destiny. Social origins of male dominance (and the phallic symbolism) Transcendence vs. alienation: women must choose to seek ful llment in transcendence. !1: donaldson, women confronted with the choice between the other, the.
