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Among other factors, Kemper discusses four specific elements which corroborate the psychological difficulties described by Freud. The first is the metamorphosis of the female organism, reviewed from the fish to the human, which shows how the female in these phylogenetic developments sacrifices the active primary orgiastic pleasure. The second element is a phylogenetic demonstration that the vagina is a very late acquisition. From an excretory organ it became an internalized process, passing through the intermediary step of a cloaca in which the female had the same cavity for genital activity, urination, and defecation. The third point is the contradictory function of the vagina which supports anatomically the preceding phylogenetic consideration. The fourth is that women have acquired the ability to perform coitus without any reference to the hormonal cycle. Other females, not in heat, would attack the male. Woman then appears to adapt herself sexually to the man.
For these reasons, the author feels that Freud's postulations were well grounded in phylogenetic data, and also that, precisely because the female can adapt herself to the sexual act of the male, she is an organism biologically stronger and better prepared for survival. 'The female obtains a better creative omnipotence corresponding to the initial primary cells.'