ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Sext, Phallogocentrism, Logocentrism
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The white male colonized africa, women being colonized by men: portmanteau words: These words have combination of male and female. She says we have to get rid of oppositions, of binaries: the gorgons were three sisters; medusa"s the mortal one, perseus, heroic male, decapitates medusa, the horse pegasus springs from her body. Once very beautiful, object of male desire, raped by neptune, her hair was turned into snakes. She turns people to stone with eye contact. Pregnant with neptune"s child, but because she"s decapitated, her child metamorphoses into pegasus. Medusa associated with womanhood because the sight of female genitalia was like looking into her eyes because the male would be petrified for fear of castration. According to freud: how fertile the body is, it"s capable of producing milk, on a level the male body is incapable, woman never far from the role of mother, nonname and as source of goods. Infant: infans, not speaking, not able to speak.
