A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”

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The line presents What does a woman want as a question the speaker says they have failed to answer despite decades of research. It records a claimed limit of understanding rather than establishing women’s wishes or independently verifying that research history.

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