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DISCUSSION: Dr. Milton Malev presented anthropological and clinical data to refute the supposition that matriarchal societies had actually existed. He contended that women desired to have their aggressivity controlled by men. In his experience, feminine aggression toward men is related to the castration complex and to the perception of the turning inward of their aggression in order to be loved, with subsequent need for vengeance. He feels that the persistence of the legend of prior matriarchal rule is attributed in women to a wish for 'what is now absent and once was present', and in men to a past punishment for present aggression as well as a reassurance of the ability to withstand a loss of activity and control.
Dr. M. Donald Coleman focused on the defenses against the aggression shown by God/earthly father toward the first-born son. In Carthage, the hostility remained unneutralized and the first born was sacrificed. The Hebrew God was ambivalent, first demanding the sacrifice and then relenting; His covenant with the Jews led to masochistic trends when He failed them. In Christianity, the