ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is a discipline of rationalism, of clear-headedness, and in the rationalist world view there is little doubt that fathering is preferred to mothering. Mothering is so messy, after all, so full of bodily functions. All that dripping and cleaning up, all that food on the floor, and much else besides, not to be confronted in the man’s clean world. Children stop you thinking; everyone knows that they turn your brain to porridge.
