>>1716059De sire/need, also to make blood flow again in order to revive a very old relationship-intrauterine, to be sure, but also pre historic-to the maternal.
Woman, in this sexual imaginary, is only a more or less obliging prop for the enactment of man's fantasies. That she may find pleasure there in that role, by proxy, is possible, even certain. But such pleasure is above all a masochistic prostitution ofher body to a desire that is not her own, and it leaves her in a familiar state ofdependency upon man. Not knowing what she wants, ready for anything, even asking for more, so long as he will "take" her as his "object" when he seeks his own pleasure. Thus she will not say what she herself wants; moreover, she does not know, or no longer knows, what she wants. As Freud admits, the beginnings of the sexual life of a girl child are so "obscure," so "faded with time," that one would have to dig down very deep indeed to discover beneath the traces of this civilization, of this history, the vestiges of a more archaic civi lization that might give some clue to woman's sexuality. That extremely ancient civilization would undoubtedly have a differ ent alphabet, a different language ... Woman's desire would not be expected to speak the same language as man's; woman's desire has doubtless been submerged by the logic that has domi nated the West since the time of the Greeks.
