MALES TODAY: BETWEEN CLASHES, SUPREMACY AND SYMMETRY

Abstract

The battle of the sexes appears to be a great “gender” neurosis in which both men and women pursue masculine protest adopting fictional guises in attempts to satisfy their respective need for supremacy. According to many studies, the thousand-year old male dominion appears to be compensatory reaction to archaic conditions of impotence and inferiority that were particularly felt as regards reproduction when man appeared to have no influence as regards the conception of children. On the other hand, today it is the woman, in a rightful attempt to re-establish her position, who risks in some extremes to deceptively carve herself out a gender supremacy that may even involve a return to the solitary procreation. The neurotic need for “gender”, to define oneself in distant and predominant positions, requires the construction and the structuring of sexual stereotypes dichotomized roles between father and mother. Adler’s invitation is to move in the opposite direction. In other words, referring to the concept of psychic hermaphroditism, man and woman together must put aside the excessive antitheses and each one sufficiently accept to recover a little bit more of his own Hermaphrodite, a being at the same time male and female