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Defending Freud (side B)

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Are You a Woman or a Man?

Psychoanalysis is so concerned with the process of like you coming to be a woman or you come to be a man or you came to be trans, that's a problem. I've also heard one say that it's interesting when feminist accused Freud of being a sexist because he was the first man that ever listened to the complaints of women. Like hysteria is a response that is gender blind and Freud first gets there because what he notices is that the women called hysterics in Vienna have different symptoms from the women call hysterics elsewhere.

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