In Closing

After finishing this book, I believe the central theses of this book was that the true nature of women’s sexuality has thus far not been fully understood, that the present (at the time the book was written) understanding of women’s sexuality is phallocentric, that psychoanalysis of women’s sexuality has denied women a voice in the matter and in fact gone as far as denying their sex altogether, and that this has lead to women’s sexuality being suppressed, and it has indirectly resulted in the subjugation of women. Furthermore, this book elucidates the importance of diction in discourse, shows how discourse can change and even define our understanding of reality, and shows how linguistic analysis can be a powerful critique of hard science, and demonstrates this by applying linguistic analysis on the works of Freud, Lacan, and other psychologists.