Oedipus, The Devil, and Myself

I'm wrapping my head around a history book about witchcraft trying to reconcile gender as a symbolic notion with inherent (physiological) sexual difference. Surprisingly difficult with how much we think we know about women and something that I think hasn't necessarily caught on in history except with microhistories that deal largely with the subjectivity of single entities.

Also trying to reconcile a conversation I had at a bar about "maternal instincts."