Chris, are you trying to wind us up here? Or are you seriously considering
a suggestion that male poets write because they can't make babies?
(Or because they're scared of women with large knives, or something?)
Why do female poets write, then?
[At this point I am interrupted by children asking for biscuits. Really.]
Janet
> I am doing some more research into parturition envy, otherwise known as
> a common male fantasy of being pregnant and giving birth to a child.
>
> The term is psychoanalytic and relates to castration anxiety and was
> coined by Klein (as far as I know) and is tied up with Lacan's theory of
> language. That is, that the male child in the phallic stage gains access
> to language by resolution of the castration complex with the signifying
> bar being castration. To fail to overcome this phallic stage and become
> fixated on castration is the suggested Freudian theory of homosexuality
> in males. So we have a complex in which parturition envy as a fixated
> resolution may be seen as the creation of language by male poets which
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