The gods have given us one disobedient and unruly member
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The gods, says Plato, have given us one disobedient and unruly member that, like a furious animal, attempts, by the violence of its appetite, to subject all things to it; and so they have given to women one like a greedy and ravenous animal, which, if it be refused food in season, grows wild, impatient of delay, and infusing its rage into their bodies, stops the passages, and hinders respiration, causing a thousand ills, till, having imbibed the fruit of the common thirst, it has plentifully bedewed the bottom of their matrix.
Hysteria beyond Freud - Page 27
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- It should also be noted that animal analogies are used elsewhere for the organs. Not only woman is thought to have a zoon inside her, since Plato himself likens the penis to an animal, and in Aristotle it is the heart that is like an ...
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