Article With A Freudian Framework By Nancy Chodorow

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Nancy Chodorow begins the article with a Freudian framework which, carries forward into a post-modern view of children’s growth from an “analytical” and “relational” style which determines their role in society. This article explains the psychodynamic progression of gender ideals instilled by a mother’s nurturing style. It appears a mother will treat her son and daughter differently.
If society and the psychoanalytic field were once heavily dominated by a Freudian perspective of woman, no wonder feminism became to be. A Freudian oedipal style thought woman learned their feminine qualities from their mother’s in their nuclear environment. Women would follow along the learned path into marriage and create an ideal family. If a woman questioned

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