It is interesting how set in their thoughts and how dedicated to the" obvious" some...nay most psych- ologists and psychiatrists are. For example: In this thesis other people's works are cited and among them is reference to an investigation in which identification in anxiety patients was compared with "normals". In this and other papers it was reported that the anxiety patients tended to identigy to a greater degree with the parent of the opposity sex and concluded that "confusion in sexual identification" was found in the neurotic group as compared to the control. It would seem at least worthy of investigation to explore the possibility that one of the bases of anxiety and neurosis lies in the fact that these persons are vaguely aware of the 2-sidedness of their personalities but are unable to handle the softer, more feminine side of themselves, feel guilty and "unmanly" and develop variou anxiety patterns because of this. But this possibility just doesn't come into view with the psychologist doing the work. To him it was "obvious" that the male must identify completely with the father and the female

vice versa,

so who investigates something that comflicts with the obvious...only a fool.

The TVs were found not to identify with either parent as much as the controls, and the females ident- ified with their mothers even less strongly than males did with their mothers. This beings up the interesting notion that a) females are much freeer in their sex code as males and therefore do not feel forced to identify so strongly, they are more themselves and less of their parents. b) that TVs having a greater measure of the feminine and being aware of it do not have as great a need to tie themselves to Daddy's belt, as it were, to gain masculine security. So they are not so much hanging tighter to Mother, as they are less tightly to Daddy. This is borne out too in the add- itional findings of the thesis that TVs tend in such ways as emotional responsiveness, empathetic capabil- ity, sensitivity, activity and interest patterns to be a good deal closer to the feminine pattern than to the masculine. It is rather interesting that in an investigation of creativity at the Univ. of Calif. it was found that creative men graded much higher on the femininity scale than non-creative men, and

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