patriarchy redux?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>From: Michael Pollak (mpollak at panix.com)
>Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 00:28:54 EDT
>
>On Thu, 31 May 2001, Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:
>
>>  > > Imagine marrying the first person you had sex with. What a riot that
>>  > > would be . . .
>>  >
>>  > Freud makes a lot more sense when you realize he was describing a world
>>  > just like that. Acting out your feelings towards your parents big time.
>>  > And then stuck in that rut forever.
>>  >
>>  Actually young bourgeois men had sex with women of other classes before
>>  marriage to women of their own class who were sexually inexperienced.
>
>Sex, yes. But relationships, mainly no, precisely because of the class
>factor you mentioned. And that's key for the acting out part. It was in
>fact a common affliction among Freud's male patients that they could make
>it fine with a prostitute or serving girl, but respectable women reminded
>them of their mothers. So as far as the psycho-drama was concerned, the
>boys were mostly still virgins too when they got married. And still
>mostly completely ignorant where it counted.
>
>Michael
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com

While sexism continues to plague us, at least we've left Freud's 
Vienna behind.  Kubrick's _Eyes Wide Shut_ tanked, probably because 
the sexual hang-up of the petit-bourgeois man in the world of Arthur 
Schnitzler didn't strike many as compelling.

Today's post-nuclear sexual fantasy revolves around homophobia & 
pedophilia -- hence the popularity of _American Beauty_ for instance.

Yoshie