Meanings
adjectivematrisexual (not comparable)
- not comparablesexually attracted to one's mother
Although Chodorow acknowledges the contributions of biology to the infant's matrisexual experience and subsequent maternal symbiosis, she maintains that the oedipal crisis is culturally specific.
1988, Madeleine R. Grumet, Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, page 17
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