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The object and the phallus »

This election season has been more than educational; at the minimum the rivalry between Hillary and Barack has illustrated the sexist underpinnings in our political power culture, that mainly go ‘unseen,’ or in Freudian terms, either ‘denied’ or ‘repressed.’   The sexism of the campaign had to go way ‘over the top’ for some to ‘get [...]

What Does She Want!!! »

Sigmund Freud was reported to confess to Ernst Jones, while traveling on a passenger ship to America, that after forty years of studying the psyche of females within his new discipline of psychoanalysis, he still had no answer to the question, what do women want?
This of course sparked many responses. Jacques Lacan provoked [...]