Three Myths Of Transcendence

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Matthew McKee Three Myths of Transcendence Mary Daly’s views on The Struggle Toward Self-Transcendence focuses on the situations that women will face on their struggles to attain self-transcendence. It seems that much of the interpretations of how women’s gender roles are portrayed in society have no backing. Although this book was written in 1973, women were still being encouraged to take on roles that only the men of society would normally hold. It’s unfair to generalize the population of women as a whole based on the experience of a few. Daly brings about three major myths that a women goes through in order to achieve complete transcendence. The situations that women encounter on their path to self-transcendence will often take a form of “exitus-reditus”, or exit and return. This theory is often used to present the relationship that humans have with God. When we are born, we are direct gifts from God above. We live out our given lives as a journey given to us by God as well. Once our journey is through, we will inevitably meet with our creator once again if we have lived the chosen path. It’s a never ending cycle where we are released and taken in by the same parental figure when we’re alive and dead. Daly reports that women are faced with the same sort of role. The only difference is that the parental figures are people in their lives who nurture them throughout their lives. From the exit of the womb, they are in need of immediate care from their parents. They need the basic necessities of life that are unavailable for them to attain without assistance. Once a woman is old enough to marry, she is cared for in her own home by a husband that controls the household. I disagree with her perception of a woman’s infantile dependence throughout life. The dependence you seek from others once you’re strong and able enough to fend for yourself is completely on

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