"I have done most of the child care of
our now three year old daughter, and I have a lot of questions. How to deal with princesses, dolls, all the sexed artefacts, other kids' common sense, social expectations about female comportment and bodily hexis, the forming of an unconscious in terms of what can only be the most inchoate understanding of the conflict between parents' expectations and society's, a child's happiness, enthusiasm and flourishing. '
Rakesh, you are indeed in a pickle, and the situation you describe would be a great challenge for Freudians to predict an outcome. After three sons, I can tell you the ruling factor is inherited temperament. Environmental factors (including good or bad parenting) in most cases appear to be less important.
When my current SO is angry at me, she often says "I just hope you have daughters in your next life!"
BobW --- Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Carl: There are two materialist critiques of human
> history: Freud's and Marx's. If anything, Freud's
> subject-matter is anterior and more fundamental. I
> imagine that human beings will never be freed from
> the
> twists and turns of the unconscious, but they may
> yet
> learn to create an economy and society around other
> assumptions than private property. On that I agree
> with you.
>
> bobW
>
> Has anyone read Henrietta Moore's The Subject of
> Anthropology, a
> critique of Freudian (and probably at least
> implicitly Marxian)
> theory to understand how we are sexed. Yes indeed an
> equally if not
> more fundamental problem. I have done most of the
> child care of our
> now three year old daughter, and I have a lot of
> questions. How to
> deal with princesses, dolls, all the sexed
> artefacts, other kids'
> common sense, social expectations about female
> comportment and bodily
> hexis, the forming of an unconscious in terms of
> what can only be the
> most inchoate understanding of the conflict between
> parents'
> expectations and society's, a child's happiness,
> enthusiasm and
> flourishing.
>
> rb
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