1 result for (book:tps1 AND heading:"delet session april 25 1971" AND stemmed:mind)
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Carl
premise
Sue
insecurity
attitudes
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
(To Sue:) Now. You have felt for a long time that you were between the devil and the deep blue sea. That you had a mind and a womb, and that somehow the two did not go together. Regardless of past-life influences, which did exist, and granting some other interior reasons, you had a child to prove that you were a woman both to your mother and to yourself.
Then, you thought, you could be quite free to use your mind and your other abilities, and no one could say a thing because you could always say, “Obviously, I’ve proven my womanhood, and I’m free to use my mind.”
(To Carl:) Now this was a poor-enough bargain for her to make, but for you to add to it in her mind, to demand that she prove this womanhood daily with the dishes or the housework or whatever, was too much for her to bear, and she felt doubly betrayed by you and by herself.
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
Your own artistic abilities also brought up problems, since they seemed in your mind, unconsciously, more feminine than masculine.
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