“ In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. ”
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“ No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile, can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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