Extending the sexed-subject model to other myths repeats Freud’s nuclear-family error

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My attitude toward Freud today involves a broader critique of his entire project. It is a critique not only of Freud’s masculism but of nuclear-familial psychoanalytical theories of the constitution of the sexed subject. Such a critique extends to alternative scenarios to Freud that keep to the nuclear parent-child model; as it does to the offer of Greek mythical alternatives to Oedipus as the regulative type-case of the model itself; as it does to the romantic notion that an extended family, especially a community of women, would necessarily cure the ills of the nuclear family. My concern with the production of colonial discourse thus touches my critique of Freud as well as most Western feminist challenges to Freud. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 484