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Andrea Long Chu

High Low with EmRata

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Is There Only One Libido, but It Is Female?

I want to talk about this, this study specifically in reference to your book. I mean, that is it was intended as a kind of tendentious claim in the book. The meaning of it was not that everyone is a woman, but that everyone kind of occupies like the psychic space that in the history of the concept of sexuality has been filled by the woman. And Freud says, there is only one libido and it is male by which he meant that it's always active because he was kind of always blurring male and active and female and passive, whatever. That kind of like, receptivity is more fundamental. Not that people aren't also sexually aggressive or active or tops or whatever

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