contrasexual

comparative more contrasexual · superlative most contrasexual

1. Jungian psychologyOf part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.

   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

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   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

   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

   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

plural contrasexuals

1. Jungian psychologyA person having personality characteristics usually associated with the opposite gender.

   Another prominent characteristic of the contrasexuals is that, in contrast to the other working women, they are more likely to go off on adventurous vacations as well as more inclined to take out mortgages and purchase their own homes […]

   2008, Neil Gilbert, A Mother's Work, page 33