Love

            Often times when one reads a collection of philosophical writings on a subject, one will find authors who are usually associated with another field. Among these are Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, who are all considered psychologists rather than philosophers. However, they present multitudes of information regarding the disadvantages of women when it comes to love and marriage. The basis of Freud's argument comes from the Oedipal complex. Freud argues that in order to develop one's sexuality in a normal fashion one must join one's Affectionate and Sensual currents. If a male fails to do so correctly he will never overcome his natural libidinal attachment to his mother. Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. This presents a problem, for a man chooses for a wife someone who he does have respect and affection for. Consequently, he will not be able to be intimate with his wife, and must seek a far inferior replacement to fulfill his sexual desires. This theory is called Debasement. Freud states: "Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they cannot love.""1 This debasement definitely disadvantages women, as they can never be sexually satisfying to their husbands. As a result, they feel worthless and in some way defective. .
             I stated above that a man chooses to marry someone whom he has great respect and affection for. However, it is often the case that the man will idolize his wife so much as to disadvantage her. Carl Jung argues that all humans have a Collective Unconscious, where they store images and ideas from long ago, prior to their own lives or even generations. These images are called Archetypes. The archetypal image of the opposite sex in humans is called the anima (for men) or animus (for women). According to Jung, "Every man carries with him the eternal image of woman The same is true of the woman: she too has her inborn image of a man an image of men.