Jung and the feminine side

What was the best compliment you’ve received?

“What about masculinity? Do you know how much femininity man lacks for completeness? Do you know how much masculinity woman lacks for completeness? You seek the feminine in women and the masculine in men. And thus there are always only men and women. But where are people? You, man, should not seek the feminine in women, but seek and recognize it in yourself, as you possess it from the beginning.”

— C.G. Jung, “The Red Book”

And a woman I worked with told me, ‘Of all men I know, you are most in harmony with your feminine side.’

That’s the greatest praise I have ever received.

Out of interest, how many of us role-play in our imagination, being the other gender?

But I’ve never been tempted to cross dress. Maybe there is still a way to go.

Published by Clive La Pensée

Clive La Pensée, ex-science teacher, recognised writer on history of beer, novelist, expressionist, dreamer, believer in never giving up, empathiser, hopeful for a future without class, gender or racial prejudice. It's tough and at the moment, one has to remember distance travelled, rather than where we are at.

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