Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler

Author:Phyllis Chesler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2005-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

* The issue of sexuality, childhood, and family life is a crucial one. The fact that we are not supposed to experience sexual pleasure with our childhood relatives, but with strangers, no doubt limits our sexuality. Nevertheless, I don’t think that remedial psychotherapy for adults is the place, time, or way to solve this particular moral mystery. Further, while McCartney is correct in condemning the originally harmful distance between parent and child, and the harmful effects of sexual repression, he is shortsighted in his understanding of the differences in treatment of male and female childhood sexuality. Female children have already been (over) exposed to heterosexual sexuality with their fathers; male children, while well nurtured maternally, are forced to severely repress their heterosexual sexuality in relation to their mothers. Few men achieve mature heterosexuality—and I don’t think sexual intercourse with a female therapist is the solution to this problem. Also, both male and female children are deprived of sexuality with their same-sex parent or with other nurturant same-sex adults. I doubt whether such bisexual deprivation could be remedied for adults through “acting out” in psychotherapy.

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