basically i would like a clearer idea of what sort of social significance freud accords to gender?
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I'm a psychologist and I can tell you that a majority of Freud's work revolved around sex and gender. Particularly relating to the first 6 years of live.Most of his views were very misogynistic and have been disputed hotly by female psychoanalyst however, many of his believes seem to hold water.I recommend you study him up on the net, there are many good resources.
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Four things come to mind: First, their attitude towards government. They believe in a big, cradle-to-grave nanny state that controls every aspect of the people's lives, taxes the rich to redistribute wealth to the "poor" and expects the vote of all of the "victims" who receive their largess.  Can you say "Socialism?" Re: From each according to his ability; to each according to his need. - Karl Marx.\n\nSecond: Nuances, shades of gray, believing there is no such things as Good and Evil or Right and Wrong. No absolutes. No one is really responsible for their own actions.\n\nThird, they depend heavily on "moral equivalency" to make an argument. Don't debate the issue with facts, offer a moral equivalent instead. A moral equivalent can be used to "abuse, excuse, accuse or confuse". \n\nFourth, their response to almost every problem is what they feel, not what they think. My own personal opinion?  Feminism has made masculine logic politically incorrect. "I feel your pain." has replaced, "I see your problem. Let's fix it."\n\nYou asked for our honest answers. There's mine.
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Masculinitiy is good for both sexes . A very few of societys established masculine behaviour and most of  feminie behaviour are bad . Exaple :  Man try to hide sorroness and donot able to cry easily though it is helpful for health. So , it shoud be avoided.\n On the otherhand omens excessive dependency and willing to be dominated are socities established role . It is also have to avoid for better life.
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Oh Lord, I have sooooooo much to say about this one.  Firstly, I had gender reassignment at 23, and although I was never a 'boy' in the real meaning of the term, I have lived life on both sides of the gender spectrum.  Thus, I have a somewhat unique perspective on gender.\n\nFirstly, there is really no such thing as 'boy' toys and 'girl' toys, or 'boy' colours and 'girls' colours, etc.  Colours are colours, period.  Toys are toys, period.  It just so happens that society has placed these labels on inanimate objects and expects the genders to conform to these labels.  It is true that, yes, dolls are marketed towards little girls.  Why?  Because companies want to play on the fact that little girls are (supposedly) more nurturing that little boys.  When in most cases this may be true, it is not 100% accurate.\n\nSecondly, I have no idea why parents get so wrapped up in this issue.  I know of a man who is married to a woman who has taken dance classes of all sorts (especially ballet) throughout all of her childhood, and she is very good!  They have a son.  One day he said "I'm sure there are many dads out there who would be fine with their son wearing tights and dancing ballet, but I'm not one of them."  My first thought was "Oh my god!  What if your son has inherited his mother's abilities to dance, and because of your sexist attitude, you would stop him from doing that.  He may be the world's next great male dancer!"  I am always flabbergasted (is that word even used anymore?) by parents who would limit their child's natural, God-given talents, simply because of a dumb sexist rule.\n\nOkay, my next point.  First off, being Christian, homosexuality is (supposed to be) against my faith.  I, however, choose not to judge, because it is a clear command in the Bible.  And, being transgendered, I'm hardly in a position to do so.  So, what if you did allow your son to have a broom and an iron as a toy when he's young and he did grow up to be gay.  So what?  Is it the broom and the iron's fault?  I highly doubt it.  For those who believe that homosexuality is an in-born trait, his choice of toys (or your choices for him) aren't going to make any different.  For those who believe homosexuals are made, then I guess you would be to blame for 'being an absent father' and your wife would be to blame for 'being an overly attached mother'.  Basically it boils down to: if he is, he is. . .if he isn't, he isn't.  Love him anyway.  He is your son.  You're supposed to love him no matter what.\n\nAnd again, yet another point.  You are right in saying that he will need the abilities of cleaning and ironing, etc. in order to survive.  So many young men haven't the slightest clue what to do about these chores when they're out on their own, because mom always did it for them.  In a world where both parents are usually working outside of the home (and I'm not really in favour of that, but I understand why), men should take a full 50% of the load of responsibility at home.  Women today are overworked because not only are they working 40 hours a week, they're also putting in at least that much at home.  I highly admire the husband who will help his wife out at home, because it is fair and right.  No longer are the days when the wife stays at home and cooks and cleans, and raises the kids, while the husband brings home the $$.  I have been blessed with a wonderful husband who does all of those things, and I am very greatful to have him.  Not that it was because his mother taught him those things.  It was because he had a desire to learn to do them, because he didn't feel it right that I should do all the work when I've just come home from a long day at work myself.  In fact, when he went through a period of unemployment, I didn't have to lift a finger at home, except to cook (my hubby isn't the greatest
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Kavim (קווים) means lines in Hebrew. Or in the case above - outlines. So the question is "What are the outline differences in male and female souls". \nNow, that's heavy toll!\nI guess one difference that is obvious to me - women are much more into gossip and the spiritual and men are a lot more into the material/physical stuff...
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what kind of mental illness and why are you so concerned with the gender in your question?
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Hi\nI can recommend a good web-site that may help you find appropriate journals etc. You can download the tool bar and locate relevant literature (with the references to in some cases).\n\nwww.PsyPlex.com\n\nMichael
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I love these questions- gives me a chance to straighten out many misconceptions about what transsexualism is all about.\n\nOK, first- some definitions-\n\nSex is between the legs.\nGender is between the ears.\nSexual orientation is who you want between the sheets.\n\nYour gender is the sense that you are male or female- it's who you identify as. Sex is the outer part of the body- it's the body you are born with. Sexual orientation is who you are attracted to sexually- who "turns" you on.\n\nMost of the time, sex and gender match each each other, the person grows up with a male gender and whose sex is male, and they think of themselves as a man. You think of yourself as a man, not becuase of the parts between your legs, but because you know that your internal gender is male. If you were put in a sensory deprivation tank, and all feeling of your body was removed, you would still think of yourself as a man.\n\nSometimes, a person is born whose gender is female, but their sex is male. Contrary to what others tell this person, inside their mind, this person is female. This person is not happy at all with having male parts attached to their body, and this is called transsexualism, or basically crossed sex.\n\nNow, if the person has an internal female gender, but a male body, this person is called a MtF (male to female) transsexual.\n\nIf the person has an internal male gender, and a female body, they are called a FtM, or female to male transsexual.\n\nTranssexuals ARE NOT:\n\n1) crazy\n2) obsessed with sex\n3) a chick with a d*ck (an insulting term)\n4) a man who wants to be a woman (they are women inside)\n5) gay (generally yes, but if a person transitions from male bodied to female bodied and they still desire women as sexual partners, they are technically gay)\n\nTranssexuals ARE or HAVE\n\n1) a medical, not a mental problem- most transsexuals test perfectly normal on psychological tests for their gender\n2) people with a unique set of issues\n\nSome terminology:\n\nPass: to look so much like a woman that people just assume they are women.\n\nQuestion: Why don't you see the really pretty transsexuals- don't they all look like men in dresses?\n\nAnswer: Some transsexual women are physically so much like a woman that unless a chromosome test is administered (to detect XY male, or XX female), you couldn't tell them apart from any other ordinary woman.\n\nSome misconceptions about transsexuals, especially MtF transsexual women:\n\n1) You can't tell some one used to be male or not from the absence or presence of an adam's apple- some women, like me, never had one.\n\n2) A very passable transsexual woman can wear a skimpy bathing suit and look just like any other woman.\n\n3) The "parts down there" look very real- many a gynecologist has examined a transsexual woman and just thought she was a hysterectomized female.\n\n4) Not all transsexuals have deep voices- a lot of them are well inside the female range- also, it's not so much how you sound, but how you say things that makes the difference-women have different speech patterns than men.\n\n5) Transsexual women can wear perfume and it won't smell weird, like a man wearing perfume.\n\n6) Some transsexual women have naturally wide hips and walk just like a woman- they even swivel their hips when climbing stairs.\n\n7) Just because someone got good at acting male, doesn't mean that it comes naturally to them- it's just an act.\n\n8) The cost of a sex change operation costs between $6,000 in Thailand, and $18,000 in the States.\n\nAs for the erection question- after about 6 months of continuous hormone therapy, getting and/or maintainig an erection is difficult, if not impossible.\n\nSome of these women never took hormones- they just got breast enlargements to satisfy a fetish about being a woman-these people's gender is male, they are just turned on by the idea of being half and half. THEY ARE NOT TRUE TRANSSEXUALS and t
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it's an argument that's as old as it is contentious: that male and female brains work differently.\n\nMichael Gurian, psychologist and author of "What Could He Be Thinking?" believes there are about a hundred structural differences that have been identified between the male and female brain.\n\n"Men, because we tend to compartmentalize our communication into a smaller part of the brain, we tend to be better at getting right to the issue," he said.\n\n"The more female brain (will) gather a lot of material, gather a lot of information, feel a lot, hear a lot, sense a lot," he said.\n\nScientists say males have more activity in mechanical centers of the brain, whereas females show more activity in verbal and emotional centers.\n\nThe differences can be noticed from early childhood, Gurian said, such as when an adult gives a child a doll.\n\n"That doll becomes life-like to that girl, but you give it to a two-year-old boy and you are more likely, not all the time, but you are more likely than not to see that boy try to take the head off the doll," he said.\n\n"He thinks spatial-mechanical. He's using the doll as an object".\n\nTo find out why these differences exist, scientists have taken voyages deep inside the gray matter using MRI scans.\n\nThe scans show that in most women, the corpus callosum area, which handles communication between the brain's two "hemispheres", is larger.\n\nIn layman's terms, it means that the two sides of the female brain "talk" better to each other -- which could explain why studies show women tend to multi-task better.\n\nOn the other hand, the scans show men tend to move information more easily within each hemisphere.\n\nIt all boils down to genes, according to Dr. Marianne Legato Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine Columbia University.\n\nWomen are born with two X chromosomes, and men with an X and a Y.\n\n"And on that Y chromosome are at least 21 unique genes unique to males which control many of the body's operations down to the level of the cells," Dr Legato said.\n\nShe also said those genetic differences explain other differences, like why men can drink more alcohol than women without becoming intoxicated.\n\n"Women do not have the enzyme in their stomach that degrades alcohol which men have," she said.\n\nUnfortunately it doesn't explain why some men leave the toilet seat up, or some women can't take out the garbage.
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Greatly. Neo-freudians are psychoanalysts who diverted from Freud and started their own schools of though. They accpet the main concepts of psychoanalysis but have modified the theory by placing the emphasis on e.g. social factors, ego psychology, interpersonal relations etc.
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In Christianity, God created man in His own image. No one knows what God looks like as we are in human form. I think that image is of seeking knowledge and a conscious of right and wrong and the need to survive. Psychology is the study of mans mind, his thought capabilities, emotional triggers, (stimuli) and others. The word stimuli is key, for example you can give a list of careers to 3rd graders and ask them to read well and then form a line a verbalize which career they want to be. The majority will give the same answers. This often is not what they have considered, but that they do not want to stand alone, or go against the tide. Many personality traits of people are followers.( amicable) They do as their fathers tell them as far as religion/sects or politics too.
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I think Freud was really on something alright... just kidding.\n\nI really love my genitals.  I have an awesome vulva and kick a$$ breasts.  I'm super hot :-)
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I do think that there are differences between gender.  There are differences among cultures too.  I especially like the first link below.  It's by Carol Gilligan (the guru of gender differences).  It gives some really good insight.\n\nMen tend to value:\nJustice/gratification\nFactual vs logical and right/wrong\nLogic\nLogic and rule-based\nLess caring\nMatter of fact (practical)\nPresent focus\nStrict rules\nBlack and white\nIndependence\nRigid\nTaking a commanding role\n\nWomen tend to value:\nReason\nEmotional\nImpact on relationships\nCompassion\nCaring and concern\nMore caring\nRationalizing away facts (abstract)\nFuture focus\nMaking exceptions\nShades of gray\nDependence\nPeople-oriented\nShying away from decision-making
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Feminism? :-))\n\nMisogyny is the hatred of women, misandry is the hatred of men.\n\nAnd yes, if you take it too far, sexism. :-))
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Sociology is the study of everything having to do with humans with respect to society.  you study things such as culture, gender, religion, tradition, social stratification, political systems and their effects on society, sex, age, the media etc and their effects on society. in other words, you study society and all the specific things that make it up and affect it. \n\npsychology is more the study of human behavior and human thought.  of course there are tons of different sub-areas within psychology but you study things such as personality, emotions, disorders of various types (social, mental etc), and then of course there are the different approaches to how to deal with certain issues.\n\nas you can see, although they are very different in their main focuses psychology and sociology overlap in many areas and each discipline takes into consideration many of the factors from the other.  they complement eachother. \n\nthere are some areas of psychology however, that are directly related to sociology such as Social Psychology.  in this branch of psychology you focus on human beings as members of a society. you might deal with issues such as Identity, Social Anxiety disorder etc. \n\nthey are both very interesting and like i said, both complement each other and overlap with eachother although they are very different in that their goal and their focus is different from eachother. \n\ni hope this helps
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It's Sigmund Freud. I included a picture in sources of Freud to compare them.
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I don't think that it really matters per say on gender. But on the way we perceive things differently. The gender can effect the way that we react to things differently.