Fantasy of Mother as a devouring monster and her womb as the devouring mouth:
able to give birth and life (power of procreation and creation/generative power)
steal the creating power or life essence from men?
womb/the silent and threatening belly = capture net of maternal power, the phallic mother → phallic threat, anxiety, phobia of castration fear (p. 41) [from man-father’s perspective]
Q: Fantasy based on Oedipus’s hatred: (still uninterrupted)
makes a hole in the bellies of women/identity = a stake driven into the earth (p. 41)
“Torn between the sons and the fathers, the stake or sacrifice in disputes between men (disputes for the ownership of the mother’s body), she is fragmented into bits and pieces, and therefore ‘unable to articulate her difference’†(p. 27)
“The (male) subject prefers to see her as the maternal-feminine rather than as a woman (castration and death, the unimaginable heterogamous other)†(p. 27) → “A hole in the texture of language corresponds to the forgetting of the scar of the navel†(p. 41).
Q: 1. phallic erection = the only sexual value? (in the patriarchal tradition)
2. castration anxiety = the unconscious memory of such sacrifice?
The murder of the father = “a desire for one who artificially cut the link with the mother in order to take over the creative power of all worlds, especially the female world†(Wrong) →
“signifies a desire to take his [the father’s] place, a rival and competitive desire†(p. 42)