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Desire, Dominion, and the Difference Between Men and Women | Married Philosophers Discuss Confessions 1.5
What does desire reveal about the difference between men and women?
In this episode, married philosophers Abigail L. Rosenthal and Jerry L. Martin return to a striking passage from Confessions of a Young Philosopher: “My heavy head of hair bent under his dominion.”
The word dominion is deliberate. Abigail does not mean cruelty, degradation, or the loss of freedom. She means the peculiar power of eros: the experience of being enveloped and overcome within an embrace while remaining fully oneself.
The conversation moves from Abigail’s life in Paris to Plato, Rodin’s The Kiss, Adam and Eve, and…
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