The Difference between Male & Female Thought Patterns

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Men & Women Thought Patterns

Human cognition, psychologists will argue follow the same pattern. In psychoanalysis based on the work of Freud, Klein and Winnicott, one can argue further that the inner psychic reality of men and women are influenced in a similar manner process-wise. Via exposure to events and via the struggle for independence and the need for inner mental and emotional balance - men and women look at the world similarly. However, feminists and gender specialists look at this issue differently. Lacan for instance purposed that men being born in said gender seek to inhibit the 'phallic center' of social hierarchy - meaning the symbolic cultural interpretation or representation of power in any social organization. This is true in a patriarchy for men are always leading and occupying central roles of wider social importance. Women according to Lacan are said to identify their place and identity in the social structure by looking at their 'otherness' - lacking the 'phallic capability' but struggling as well to find a sense of balance. Identity and knowledge of self is formed based on differentiations - men are this, women are this - a comparative inquiry of what is and what is not, what the other sex has and hasn't and ...