patriarchy redux?

[Brad DeLong]

>Good point, in some ways, except that this leaves out the class element.
>
>Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, 29 May 2001, Max Sawicky 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.
>>
>>  Michael
>
>Actually young bourgeois men had sex with women of other classes before
>marriage to women of their own class who were sexually inexperienced. Good
>account of all this, with a curious look at the Austrian Social Democrats, in
>Hannah S Decker, :_ Freud, Dora, and Vienna, 1900_, which is about his patient
>Dora, a young woman of very respectable bourgeois origins.
>
>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Which case always struck me as freakin' bizarre. Her father is trying 
to pimp her to Mr. X so that he can make it with Mrs. X. I think it's 
a miracle Dora was as well-adjusted and well-functioning as she was...

Brad DeLong