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Put another way this implies that all children male and female are born with approximately the same potential traits, abilities and attributes (excluding of course, those that are directly genetically determined by inheritance). Next it implies that whatever role and sex is assigned to the chile and in which it develops, all the potential traits and attributes that would have been developed if he had gone down the other road are still there as potentials but have never been given the chance to develop because the child has been directed along one path, encouraged in all appropiate actions and discour- aged in all inappropriate ones.

This means that there lies buried in all of us the makings of another personality which has been suppressed. Since the traits suppressed and not allowed to develop are those which, in our present culture, are considered as belonging rightfully to the opposite sex, опе can see that each man has a buried feminine component and each woman a buried masculine component. This is not news to psychiatrists such as Jung who characterised the op- posite within men and women as the Anima and Animus respectively. However, what this repressed self may cause us to do is something else again.

Evidently each of us has repressed and buried some- thing like half of all our potentials. This deprives not only the individual but society of many fine and useful character traits which is most regretable. But since people vary widely in the kind of traits they have and the intensity with which they seek expression it follows that there will be some males who will have a quota of repressed "feminine" traits that want "out". They are like the second team on the football field--waiting on the bench for one of the varsity men to get injured so that the 2nd string player can get in there and show his stuff. When a male has a relatively large and active group of feminine traits seeking expression there are essentially four ways in which he can handle the conflict.

The first is the common way--that of suppression and repression. This freguently results in psychosomatic illnesses and in ulcers, heart attacks and so on because the person is having to live a rather false role in life and is unable to give expression to a large part of himself.

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