The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Freud admits he could not answer the great question of what women want despite decades of research.
- In plain terms
- Freud still did not know what women want after 30 years.
- What can you take from it?
- Female desire remains unknown to science.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can desire be defined?
- Is this question valid?
Another view
The question itself assumes women are a monolith.
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