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Mordas, E. S. Menstruation Complex in Psychoanalysis. Part 1

Abstract: The article shows that being a sexual function and the main difference between sexes, menstruation is a biological form of periodicity regulating woman’s relations with her surroundings. In other words, female menstruation is the ‘physiological frames’ and symbolic rules established by social and cosmic rhythms


Keywords:

psychology, psychoanalysis, unconscious, female, menstruation, complex, taboo, puberty, libido, fear of castration


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