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You cannot understand the human condition, torn as it is between gender conflict, without understanding psychology and physiology, and you can't understand psychology without physiology or physiology without psychology, since the two aspects of the totality of factors somatic and psychic 'hang together', though with different ratios, depending on gender and class. Females, I have long believed, are more physiology than psychology, males, by contrast, more psychology than physiology, since in the one case soma precedes psyche (and literally predominates over it) whereas in the other case, that of males, psyche precedes soma, (and consequently tends to preponderate over it), thereby indicating that the genders are in effect opposites, with correspondingly opposite concepts of self. Self for the female is basically somatic, for the male its is essentially psychic. Therein lies the roots of the gender friction and so-called 'war of the sexes'. Self is whatever is free and the female, if left to her own sensuous devices, will opt for somatic freedom and psychic binding, the latter corresponding to the not-self, whether as metachemical bound psyche to metachemical free soma or as chemical bound psyche to chemical free soma. By contrast, the male, if left to his own devices, will more than likely opt for psychic freedom and somatic binding, the latter corresponding to the not-self, whether as physical bound soma to physical free psyche or as metaphysical bound soma to metaphysical free psyche. Therefore self for the male is the opposite of what it is for the female, psyche taking precedence over soma as psychology or physiology in one of two class/elemental ways: either relatively (two-and-a-half:one-and-a-half ) as more psyche/less soma, or absolutely (three:one) as most psyche/least soma, the former corresponding to a conscious/unsensuous (nurtural/unnatural) disposition in physics, the latter to a superconscious/subsensuous (supernurtural/subnatural) disposition in metaphysics. With the female, on the other hand, soma takes precedence over psyche as physiology over psychology in one of two class/elemetal ways: either absolutely (three:one) as most soma/least psyche, or relatively (two-and-a-half:one-and-a-half ) as more soma/less psyche, the former corresponding to a supersensuous/subconscious (supernatural/subnurtural) disposition in metachemistry, the latter to a sensuous/unconcious (natural/unnurtural) disposition in chemistry. Of course, there are more than four

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