Mama?
So, Reva consistently calls all men, either in person or in photographs, "Dada." Likewise, pretty much every woman is referred to as "Mama."
Up to this point her accurarcy seemed to reinforce the one thing I remember from Psych 1: that a person's gender is the first, and most important, thing we notice about them.
However, as we were standing in the hall last night Reva very energetically stabbed at a BLD group photo saying, "Mama, mama" with her finger clearly falling on one well known Cleveland Indians fan.
(Please insert your own clever conclusions here.)
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Current psychoanalytic theorists have revised early psychoanalytic conceptualizations that feminine identity originates from an initial masculine orientation, or that maternal wishes and behavior develop only as a compensation for the missing phallus (Kleeman, 1971; Tyson, 1991). Stoller's (1976) important contributions emphasize very early roots of gender identity, such as sex assignment at birth. At present, gender identity is understood as forming during the preoedipal years (Moore and Fine, 1990) and as consolidating during the oedipal period (Tyson, 1989). Extending the frequently accepted concept that development continues at a slow rate of change throughout the life cycle (Colarusso and Nemiroff, 1979), it has been proposed that changes in feminine identity continue into adulthood (Formanek, 1982).
We consider “maternality,” which we define as the “total of intrasystemic psychic components that inform maternal thoughts, affects, and behaviors...
In short, Reva simply loves her father and Jon is merely an innocent bystander in this whole affair.
Yes, Josh, you won't need to super-google or whatever it's called to catch me on this one.
i think KAK is defending my masculinity, but there were a lot of words in there that didn't include "football" or "money" so i got a bit lost.
Jonathan,
I was definitely trying. My efforts involved googling "psych gender identity", cutting, and pasting.
But, the thought was there, even if the effort was miniscule.
Plus, I can't help laughing every time I read "missing phallus" in the same post as Cleveland Indians...
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAa
Maybe it wasn't helpful after all...
sorry about that. My, albeit wanning (no fun without Torre), Yankee fanism took over for a second.
Wow Kristen, that wasn't the type of clever I was expecting. I was really anticipating something more along the lines of:
(Rob) Ha ha, Jon's a girl.
You get kind of close with the missing phallus, but you didn't really develop the humor there along the traditional Willis/Fasani lines.
Haha. That is a really funny story. And by funny I mean it made me laugh out loud at work.
Ha ha, Jon's a girl.
Thanks Rob. It's nice to know there are some things you can always depend on.
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