Gender and psychological splitting

Jennifer Armstrong

It's very strange that none of the male theoreticians (Freud or Jung) were able to realise to what degree male identity is predicated upon projective identification: the male asserts to himself, "I am not my emotions -- YOU (female) are!"

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    Jennifer Armstrong In the case of Jung, he had the idea that men needed a female spirit guide to reveal them to themselves. This is a mystification of the fact of projection of one's "female" psychological aspects outside of oneself, implying psychological splitting.
    
    In the case of Freud, he thought that women were always reactive and never active, implying that femininity is a reactive force in relation to male psychological splitting.

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