What profound change has taken place in Gulliver when one day he is attacked by a female yahoo? How does this episode make Gulliver discover the...

This
episode of has probably been subjected to more analysis, or specifically
psychoanalysis, than any other within Book IV or the entire tale.

A frequent view of commentators has been that in this scene, Swift is expressing his
own revulsion towards sexuality and/or women. Gulliver is horrified over the "attack"
upon him by the female Yahoo. It's always dangerous to engage in amateur psychologizing, but
given what we know of Swift's personal life plus various other misogynistic passages in his
oeuvre, this analysis seems to make sense. Perhaps, however, Swift's point
is that Gulliver is actually aroused by the female, and because of this, he realizes
he...