Contrasexual
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Contrasexual is an adjective meaning (Jungian psychology) Of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
Meaning
(Jungian psychology) Of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
More Meanings
- (Jungian psychology) A person having personality characteristics usually associated with the opposite gender.
Example Sentences
If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur.
The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- contrasexuals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include archetype, androgynous, multisex, other-sex, allosexual, cisgender.
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