Excerpted from "Gendering the Spirit" (Durre.S.Ahmed)
Life is male and female . Both are essential. representing certain profound concepts as exemplified in the body which conatins physical and hormonal elements of both the sexes. The graphic representation of the Chinese Yin and Yang in a circle is a symbol of thsi totality. In Jungian terms masculine and feminine are psychological-symbolic concepts in which , for example, 'masculinity' may represent a certain type of reason, one taht is penetrative and analytic. Similarly 'feminine' represents a different sort of intellectual attitude, one taht is receptive, poetic, more inner-oriented rather than an external, action-forced view. Another way of illustrating these ideas is througha symbolic view of teh male and female body: the former representing the outer, penetrative aspect of teh intellect; the latter its contemplative , generative and receptive capacities. One can speculate taht this inner, symbolic and psychological dimension of the spiritual has been over-shadowed . impoverished and ignored by modern consciousness. What is valued is an outer, material world- and even that is regarded as something to be owned, mastered and tamed
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