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 49
... psychoanalysis as such is not an easy undertaking . Like all religions - Christianity or Marxism - it displays an ... psychoanalysts themselves . " Many ambiguities remain to be dissolved , in spite of an often - pedantic scholastic ...
... psychoanalysis as such is not an easy undertaking . Like all religions - Christianity or Marxism - it displays an ... psychoanalysts themselves . " Many ambiguities remain to be dissolved , in spite of an often - pedantic scholastic ...
Page 52
... psychoanalysts accept today that girls miss having a penis without assuming they were ever stripped of one ; this regret is not even generalized among all girls ; and it could not arise from a simple anatomical encounter ; many little ...
... psychoanalysts accept today that girls miss having a penis without assuming they were ever stripped of one ; this regret is not even generalized among all girls ; and it could not arise from a simple anatomical encounter ; many little ...
Page 54
... psychoanalysts : for them , human history is explained by an interplay of determined elements . They all allot the same destiny to woman . Her drama is summed up in a conflict between her " viriloid " and her " feminine " tendencies ...
... psychoanalysts : for them , human history is explained by an interplay of determined elements . They all allot the same destiny to woman . Her drama is summed up in a conflict between her " viriloid " and her " feminine " tendencies ...
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... psychoanalysts systematically refuse the idea of choice and its corollary , the notion of value ; and herein lies the intrinsic weakness of the system . Cutting out drives and prohibitions from existential choice , Freud fails to ...
... psychoanalysts systematically refuse the idea of choice and its corollary , the notion of value ; and herein lies the intrinsic weakness of the system . Cutting out drives and prohibitions from existential choice , Freud fails to ...
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... Psychoanalysts vehemently reject this notion of choice in the name of determinism and " the collective unconscious " ; this unconscious would provide man with ready - made imagery and universal symbolism ; it would explain analogies ...
... Psychoanalysts vehemently reject this notion of choice in the name of determinism and " the collective unconscious " ; this unconscious would provide man with ready - made imagery and universal symbolism ; it would explain analogies ...
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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