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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEXUALITY AND SEX IN RELATION TO UNIFICATION AND ORGANIC MATING

Psychoanalysis, unconsciously influenced by a division based on the bias of its own arbitrary alternatives, has assumed contrasts of behaviour not warrantable from an organismic conception--Such alternatives are “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality”--The organic instinct of mating has become distorted by the image system of “good” (conceding social consensus) and “bad” (repudiating social consensus)--Both types are response to social consensus and are ego-sexual--Sexuality is effort of conjunction of peripheral and visceral spheres while sex is effortless and non-personal conjugation of organismic poles comprising male and female--Union is of personality as realized in man and woman through identification with life, the one embodying the peripheral, allocentric component, the other the internal, autocentric component--Organically, man is not opposite woman but each is complement of other--Concept of intermediate sex is misnomer for composite sex--Social demand of oppositeness necessitates repression in male of female component and in female of male component--In present stage of society’s development marriage is mutual adjustment of ego-sexual claims, a pooling of the private unconscious of each where each withdraws from an organic place as a societal element--Biological significance of unity of personality is conception of principle of primary identification--Autocentric types as Buddha, Plato, Christ, and allocentric personalities of Socrates, Napoleon and Nietzsche equally manifest this urge of the inherent organism of man--In organic integrity of personality is societal instinct that is the composite life of the race.