PSYCHOANALYTIC SEMANTICS OF “EGG” AND “WOMAN’S SKIRT” AT THE RITUAL CIRCUMCISION

Abstract

In the article many traditional behaviors at the ritual circumcision carried out on the territory of Azerbaijan are involved to the analysis in the psychoanalytic context.
As it is known, in the territory of Azerbaijan the circumcised boys are dressed in woman’s skirt, in addition, after the ritual circumcision the egg in the water is placed next to the child. In the article “the woman’s skirt” and “egg” which pointed to female power in the ritual are analyzed according to Bruno Bettelheim and Alan Dundes’s psychoanalytic approach. According to the psychoanalytic approach, in the male collective there is jealousy to the ability of women to give birth unconsciously.
As a result of this jealousy, the male collective assimilates the birth power of women with various rituals and other creative facts. Thus, in reality, the birth power of women is attributed to men by various symbolic acts in creative facts. As a result, the men master the creation mechanism. In the article the semantics of “woman’s skirt” and “egg” are analyzed as a symbolic expression of male jealousy. It is determined that, in essence, it is a part of the desire of men to have all creation mechanism.