Diana Esther Medina NDE

Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 94-126
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ABSTRACT

Nowadays it seems that couple relationships are out of hand, part of these phenomena can be attributed to the female liberation movement that has brought changes in couples traditional structure, which requires an adaptation process in both female and male psyche as to what it means for every individual to be a man or a woman. This is an essay about the role that the male imago or inner representation of men – conscious or unconscious- play in the construction of female identity. A woman must build an identity that allows her to know and feel herself as a coherent, complete and predominantly good independent unit in order to establish a relationship with a man who also has to be perceived as a good object. A brief review of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler and “The Kingdom of Women” by Ricardo Coler allows us to start a thinking process to analyze the preconceived ideas that we have about relationships and the false expectations that we place on one another. This essay makes a revision of the construction process of female gender identity in a society where paradigm is changing and it has become difficult to conceal self sufficiency and autonomy with the desire of dependence and love, as if these two conditions were exclusive of one another and not inclusive.

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