SOCSCI 2O03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Learned Helplessness, Neolithic, Male Privilege
17 Jun 2016
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Freudian interpretation: people living in hordes, much like our present primate relatives. Hordes dominant male enjoyed access to all females. Dominant males deny sexual gratification to the younger subordinate males. Younger males eventually conspire to go against the dominant male and slay the dominant male. This was followed by wanton sexual debauch with females. Younger males overcome with guilt for having slain their father, for their incestuous liaisons with the females, their mothers/sisters and for the aggression it led to amongst themselves, prescription to go outside the group for sexual partners. Suppression of instinctual gratification the root of collective survival. Seeds of the family were thus loosely sown, more to survival and civilization. Marx argued that as the human species emerged, our very nature was transformed. Engels tried to relate the forms of the emerging human family to the histpory of human development. They are trying to unravel the evolution/development of the. Establishment of power and authority by men.
