The castrated man (or woman) is very passive about ethical issues, but very talkative about moral issues.
Cf. http://wikis.la.utexas.edu/theory/page/our-symbolic-castration
I derived much from the ideas represented above, although to me the shutting off of the emotional mind is in fact the deeper, practical meaning of castration.
It is, however, a lie that one has to either be a symbolically castrated Christian or a "hysteric". Africans are not castrated, in that they do not deny their beings in order to enter into a symbolic order (system of socially defined meanings and values). Not unless they also happen to be ascetic Christians.
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As an un-castrated man in the literal sense I must say that the alarming image of castration obliterated the finer nuances of what you just said. Talk of castration shuts off my frontal lobe. If Abrahamic religion required literal castration of me I'd worship Zeus.
It is a lie that one has to either be a symbolically castrated Christian or a "hysteric". Africans are not castrated, in this sense, in that they do not deny their beings in order to enter into the symbolic order (system of socially defined meanings).
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