By Ann Mankowitz
What's the menopause? Is it a huge and the most important occasion? the aim of this publication is to provide a few solutions to many questions, whereas retaining a mental specialize in one menopausal woman's adventure and what she realized approximately herself by means of paying shut recognition to her goals.
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Among these emancipated young women of the nineteenforties, even if reproduction was to be kept out of it, love was considered an important factor in sex, and though a girl might well sleep with several men before marriage, she would very Page 46 likely convince herself she was in love with each of them at the time. The Second World War was a factor which gave added incentive to impulsive youthful unions and early marriages, and accelerated the changes in sexual mores which were already in evidence before.
Her mind resisted its message and she became preoccupied with other things — for instance, her eyesight. Her husband's solution of bifocals was unacceptable, because they too made her look old. Yet in Rachel's case it played a big part in two ways. First of all, her preoccupation with literally seeing and not seeing came up at a crucial moment in her dreamanalysis, when she had just "seen" something that was sad but bearable Page 39 (the bedroom tableau, Scene 2), and was about to look at something that, at the time, was still unbearable so that she did not want to "see" it (Scene 3, in the barn).
But what of the rest of the prescription? Certainly "an interesting and interested partner" might be most therapeutic, but the attempts to prescribe him merely begs the question and rattles the lid of the Pandora's box. 50 Page 55 8 Death of the Womb It was some weeks after Rachel had first recounted her dream that she was able to work on the third scene (the second tableau). Inevitably, but in her own time, she returned to the dream. I'm horrified by the gruesomeness and can hardly bear to look.