Abstract
ESPITE THE SPECIFIC MEANINGS WE MAY ASCRIBE historically to the female reproductive body, its biological potential remains irrefutable, ineffable. In our own cultural tradition the female reproductive body is simultaneously an object of terror (fears of maternal engulfment) and idealization (the Virgin Mother). A dark continent traversed by every infant, whence we are conceived, labored, and delivered, it exists in our pre-natal memories-before culture, language, law, before knowledge of the father, before the Law of the Father.
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