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Similarities Between The Mermaid And The Minotaur

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There has been impressive work about the idea of the maternal in the mast twenty years . Maybe as expected, a significant number of these are re-examinations of Freud's beliefs and concepts about maternity. In her study The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise (1976), Dorothy Dinnerstein utilises Freud's ideas of the Oedipus complex to attribute a great part of the fault for the ills of man-run society to the mother being the primary and often exclusive nurturer, caregiver and protector of children. As an option, she proposes that both men and women should share equal responsibility for the care of children. In the same year, Adrienne Rich publishes her critical book: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience
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