"If feminism is understood not as a battle in the war between the sexes but rather a movement to transform a world in which both men and women suffer losses that constrain their ability to love, then the story of Psyche and Cupid is a feminist tale. In breaking the taboo on seeing Cupid and speaking about their love, Psyche reveals the world in which she has been living: a world where Cupid is hiding his love and where she cannot know what she knows. [...] To leave patriarchy she [Psyche] must cross its psychic terrain [...] The labor of love that leads to the birth of pleasure is a difficult psychological labor."
Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure
No comments:
Post a Comment