Madonna-whore complex

Madonna/whore complex English Alternative forms en Madonna/whore complex Etymology en Madonna here refers to the Virgin Mary. Noun en psychoanalysis feminist theory A complex said to develop in men who see women as either saintly "Madonnas" or debased prostitutes, potentially leading to the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship. en w:Gene Siskel w:Martin Scorsese Along the ‘Streets’ of Little Italy … w:Chicago Tribune 18 November 1973 6 6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/383845936/ ‘Who’s That Knocking at My Door?’ [1967] was a film that dealt with a simple theme, one basic idea—a young guy trying to deal with his madonna-whore complex about women—plus a slight indication of what Little Italy was like. en Nurses: think like a man, work like a dog, smile like an angel w:The Sydney Morning Herald 44,765 20 June 1981 33 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123224518/ The female nurse, however, still fulfils a public stereotype, according to the nurses The Sydney Morning Herald spoke to. She suffers from the Madonna-whore complex – she is a Madonna in the ward because she “helps” people, but socially she’s a Nurse and everybody’s heard of nurses’ parties, haven’t they? en The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis American Psychiatric Publishing 2005 1585626562 The analyst clarifies the enactments into reality of a defensive dissociation of the intimate object from the sexual object, a classic Madonna-and-Whore complex. en Hester Browne The Little Lady Agency and the Prince w:Pocket Books 2008 375 978-1-4165-4006-9 “Just got here. Saw the light on my way up to the loo—then I saw your fat arse sticking up investigating Nanny’s drawers so I thought I’d pop in. I see her taste in quasi-nun’s outfits hasn’t changed since 1985,” she observed, flicking through the hangers. “Think she’s got a Madonna and whore complex?” en w:Andrew Hudgins Morning, Ladies! The Joker: A Memoir w:Simon & Schuster 2013 246 978-1-4767-1271-0 Under the Madonna-whore complexes that plagued me and most boys, there was a deep Christian fear of ourselves as animals, creatures of flesh more than spirit. en Barbara McMichael Two views of life from Bellingham w:Kitsap Sun 4 June 2017 4D https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/816303987/ As we’re well into the 21st century, we might have hoped that all of that Freudian hooey about the Madonna-Whore Complex could have been ditched by now, but [Rena] Priest’s work suggests that our society is still impacted by those archetypes. en w:Mikki Kendall Of #FastTailedGirls and Freedom Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot w:Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 48 978-1-5266-4359-9 Like other expressions of Madonna-whore complexes, there is an idea that bad things don’t happen to good girls. Further reading Madonna–whore complex en eponyms