[lbo-talk] Re: Liza & Doug have a kid

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Jan 2 16:33:08 PST 2006


Chuck wrote:


>> Do guys really resent and fear the fact that women can create babies?
>> I know I don't!
>
Not all, but many do. It's partly fear of women as the birth/death giver and partly womb envy. Though it would be fair to say that womb envy is almost never conscious. When I got older and became aware of this, I was astounded to realize how much psychoanalytic literature is devoted to penis envy (huge amoungs) and how much to womb envy (almost none).

For the classic presentation, see the discussion of "creation" vs mere "reproduction" in Plato's Phaedrus.

Joanna


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