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Penis Envy

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Penis Enemies - Is There a Magical Power in It?

"If you're not facing your enemy in the proper terms, like you will never win," she says. "The whole project of psychoanalysis is about toppling the phallus's illusion." She also comes to this idea of an ethic of can you almost disrobe and take away all those things that make you feel bad? And so there's a minimalist dimension to her, or a minimalist dimension at the heart of her ethics. 'I think it just makes such a good point,' he adds. "[Mari] sees really something to be gained by Freud talking about it and then putting it out into the light of day'

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