ABSTRACT

Women in general have a greater inclination towards magic, reflected in the ancestral tendency towards passivity, dependency and their need to manufacture heroes, real saviours who will rescue them from the place of injustice and anonymity where they usually feel constrained—a desire which often colours their masturbatory fantasies. It is interesting to observe how the necessity to understand the world by means of magic induces men at large to search in ancient religious books for answers to modern needs and queries, as if no time had elapsed. Such insecurity induces the need to search for answers outside of themselves, to idealise and envy men’s prerogatives, to attack and denigrate women’s attributes. Life has become so predictable, repetitious, organised and boring that an immediate consequence might be the need for magic and esoteric powers, as a direct complication and a necessary outlet.