contrasexual en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English sexual English contrasexual From contra- + sexual.
Meanings
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(qualifier:Jungian psychology) Of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
While Jung's theory of the contrasexual component of the personality seems radical in certain respects, there are other parts of it which are conservative.
2012, David Tacey, The Jung Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.
1997, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN:If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur.
1987, Benjamin G. Lockerd, Edmund Spenser, The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in the Faerie Queene, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 30:Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more contrasexual | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most contrasexual | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |