Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis by Moustafa Safouan

Author:Moustafa Safouan [Safouan, Moustafa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59051-656-0
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2013-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Question: Why do they say in Semitic languages that when a man sleeps with a woman the man gets to “know” his wife? Why isn’t it said that when a woman sleeps with a man she gets to “know” her husband?

As a matter of fact, the relation to the object as an object of knowledge or of contemplation is ambiguous. It is often expressed by metaphors borrowed from the sexual field. That’s why the use of mathematics from Galileo on was a big step in the direction toward getting rid of the grasp of this imagery. Why don’t we say that woman knows man? Because of what I have just said, that femininity and masculinity are translated in the unconscious in terms of passivity and activity, the male being the active one. He is the knower; she is the known.

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