Dual-aspect monism is proposed as a model for understanding discrimination. What discrimination - specifically that against women - owes the subject-object/mind-body dichotomy long-privileged in Western thought is considered in the context of this perspective found in Freud and, today, in Neuropsychoanalysis. Explored in its relation to racism and other forms of prejudice, misogyny is shown to emanate from fear, fear of the weakness of self before the (real or imagined) power of the Other. And discrimination, more generally, is revealed as a means of disambiguating, of escaping the conflated intolerability of uncertainty and the uncomfortably familiar, the fusion, even, of self and non-self. Misogynism, in short, is shown to reveal not only the pathological origin of all prejudice and discrimination - the anxiety before the uncanny, before ambiguity and the ill-defined - but the reward to be reaped in circles of the like-minded: approval and relief from dread.