ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that the complementary and opposite of female receptivity is not "activity", but the penetrating nature, the sharpness and forward thrust of the masculine. The container as a female symbol and containment as one of the basic maternal creative functions, alongside nutrition, have become all too familiar to psychoanalysts. However, this sense of space would be useless if it were an empty space or, on the contrary, boundless. Softness is also expressed by the soft lines of the female sexual body that arouses and welcomes the male, while the bosom and womb give a baby safety and warmth, while a mother's pliability seeks to grasp and to paint a picture of the peculiarities of her child's "true self". Another element of female creativity regards the value of what is small, minute, the value of the detail and the creative ability to get much out of little.
