Les Jours Gigantesques by René Magritte, 1928. Oil on canvas. 116 x 81 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Robert James Belton, in The Beribboned Bomb, wites:

…Les Jours gigantesques (titanic days, 1928) shows a nude woman struggling with a male attacker who exists only within the contours of her own body. Such images are dependent upon the cultural presumption of innate female masochism, one of the more tenacious ideologemes of the Freudian era.¹