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The Ambivalence of Dector
There's some ambivalence in Dector and not just in her personal hypocrisy. She was a woman who pursued, I think, quite passionately at some points in her career, like public recognition for her intellect. And so there's sort of that contradiction of Dector. In addition to the very crude, very literal Freudianism, she really does emphasize the superiority of vaginal over-cliteral orgasms.