The Second SexThe essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue |
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Page 51
... little girl first has a maternal fixation , while the boy is at no time sexually attracted by the father ; this fixation is a carryover from the oral phase ; the infant then identifies with the father ; but around the age of five , she ...
... little girl first has a maternal fixation , while the boy is at no time sexually attracted by the father ; this fixation is a carryover from the oral phase ; the infant then identifies with the father ; but around the age of five , she ...
Page 52
... little girl's overall sexual drama is more complex than her brother's : she might be tempted to react to the castration complex by rejecting her femininity , obstinately coveting a penis , and identifying with her father ; this attitude ...
... little girl's overall sexual drama is more complex than her brother's : she might be tempted to react to the castration complex by rejecting her femininity , obstinately coveting a penis , and identifying with her father ; this attitude ...
Page 57
... child feels transcended , that is , frustrated in his transcendence by his father , the Freudian idea of the castration complex will persist . Deprived of this alter ego , the little girl does not alienate herself in a graspable thing ...
... child feels transcended , that is , frustrated in his transcendence by his father , the Freudian idea of the castration complex will persist . Deprived of this alter ego , the little girl does not alienate herself in a graspable thing ...
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Contents
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Chapter 1 | 71 |
Chapter 3 | 90 |
Chapter 4 | 104 |
Chapter 5 | 126 |
Introduction | 279 |
Chapter 5 | 439 |
Chapter 8 | 599 |
From Maturity to Old Age | 619 |
Chapter to Womans Situation and Character | 638 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
Chapter 1 | 159 |
Chapter 2 | 214 |
Claudel or the Handmaiden of the Lord | 237 |
Chapter 3 | 266 |
The Independent Woman | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
Selected Sources | 767 |
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