PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Nancy Chodorow, Nuclear Family, Psychodynamics
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - the psychodynamics of the family . In our society, marriage has assumed a larger and larger emotional weight, supposedly offsetting the strains of increasingly alienated and bureaucratized work in the paid economy. It no longer has the economic and political basis it once had, and the family has collapsed in upon its psychological and personal functions as production, education, religion, and care for the sick and aged have left the home. In an earlier period, women tended to physically close to their mother and sisters after marriage, and could find relationships with other women in their daily work and community. The development of industrial capitalism, however and the increasingly physically isolated nuclear family it has produced has made these primary relationships more rare and has turned women (and men) increasingly and exclusively to conjugal family relationships. And therefore provide everyone with their first and most important relationship .
