He definitely had a thing for mothers too, so it’s weird that he’s disagreeing with her in the last cell.
If it was a man instead of a woman the problem would be the mother.
Since OP neglected to credit the artist:
https://existentialcomics.com/
Great comics about the depressed philandering cokeheads who shaped much of modern philosophy!
In a society where women were repressed into a very narrowly defined role with no room for deviation, the other half enjoyed an attitude of “boys will be boys” and could behave “freely” from their perspective, within a less narrow but no less rigid societal constrain.
Women were literally prohibited, or at least severely frowned upon, to embark on a myriad activities that were acceptable and expected for men. Women were literally prohibited from entering many physical spaces, and were expected to be confined to other spaces - like the kitchen, the parlor and the tea room.
I guess it was impossible even for Freud to see how “penis envy” might have been, at root, “I wish I was a man so I could escape this narrow set of rules I was born and peer-pressured into, with no choice by me, I wish I was free” (not quite free, just “less trapped”).
I tried to wipe my phone screen twice looking at this before I realised it’s just been repeatedly jpeged
Well loved.
We’re gonna be talking about the PENIS!
Do you think that’s funny, Butt-Head?
It’s kind of ironic that Freud came up with this weird theory considering autogynephilia is more common in men than autoandrophilia is in women: The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: Preference, Arousal, the Use of Pornography, Fantasy, and Behavior
Science facts I question why you know, for 500$, Ragdoll.
But in case you’re curious about the actual answerAges ago I was doing some research on the prevalence of different paraphilias (my main focus being zoophilia as I was contributing to WikiFur), and this was one of the few large representative studies I came across. There’s one more from Canada, but they didn’t ask about autogynephilia/androphilia.
Reasons…
Many of Freud’s early patients were dissatisfied housewives. I have no difficulty believing he accidentally discovered trans men and came to the conclusion all women wish they have a penis. Hirschfeld he was not.
Freud studied the Old Testament, you say?
