Abstract: . . .  Theory 2:3 (1974): esp. 333-35; Jane Flax, "Critical Theory as a Vocation," Politics and Society 8:2 (1978): 201-23; Jessica Benjamin, "The End of Internalization: Adorno's Social Psychology," Telos 32: (1977): 42-64. 2. See Jane Flax, "The Conflict between Nurturance and Autonomy in Mother-Daughter Relationships and within Feminism," Feminist Studies 4:2 (1978): 171-89. 3. Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise (New York: Harper and Row, 1976). 4. Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis . . .
. . .  Scholar & Feminist XXX: Past Controversies, Present Challenges, Future Feminisms Document Archive Reprinted from: The Future of Difference Hester Eisenstein and Alice Jardine, Editors New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985 Mother-Daughter Relationships: Psychodynamics , Politics, and Philosophy By: Jane Flax Introduction: An Autobiographical Note This essay is a work-in-progress. It represents, in part, a return to my intellectual roots, which are in political theory and philosophy. I . . .
. . .  differs from mine in that he is interested in the overt content of theories and their history, while I am interested in the latent or repressed content. Consequently our analyses diverge on the relevance of patriarchalism to understanding modern political theory. 28. Aristotle, The Politics, tr. Ernest Barker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), Book I. 29. Rubin, "Traffic in Women," pp. 198-210. 30. Freud, "Female Sexuality," p. 58. 31. Flax, "Conflict," pp. 171-84.  . . .
. . .  Thought (New York: Basic Books, 1975). His perspective differs from mine in that he is interested in the overt content of theories and their history, while I am interested in the latent or repressed content. Consequently our analyses diverge on the relevance of patriarchalism to understanding modern political theory. 28. Aristotle, The Politics, tr. Ernest Barker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), Book I. 29. Rubin, "Traffic in Women," pp. 198-210. 30. Freud, "Female Sexuality," p. 58. 31. Flax, "Conflict," pp. 171-84.  . . .
. . .  is like the "moral writings of the ancient pagans," "the most proud and magnificent palaces, built on nothing but sand and mud." 18 Underlying the concern for certainty is a desire for control, control both of nature and of the body. Descartes was convinced that ... it is possible to arrive at knowledge which is most useful in life and that instead of the speculative philosophy taught in the schools, a practical philosophy can be found by which, knowing the power and the effects of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies . . .
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