sexual security, he said, but "in societies where a woman is still the property of a man she still tends to be passive, timid, and envious."

"On the other hand, men have become economically and psychologically more insecure," he noted.

For psychiatrists and allied workers, such changes in the psychosexual outlook of men and women pose problems not only in clinical treatment but also in the investigation of sexuality. One complicating factor in such research is the bisexual nature of men and women in varying degrees - the investigator must sort out what Dr. Greenson called "male and female traits [that] are constellations and combinations of single elements."

Another difficulty in studying the masculinity-femininity spectrum, according to the psychiatrist, is "the battle of the sexes, the unconscious tendency to prove one sex superior to another."

"Despite a conscious attitude of scientific detachment, there is so much unconscious fear and hatred of the opposite sex that it seems to influence and distort one's findings and conclusions," he said. "I believe that this is even true for psychiatrists and psychoanalysts and explains at least in part the lack of progress we have made in studying this problem."

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He continued: "In America and similar societies we all recognize women's hostility to men. The woman as a castrator is a stereotype, as is the woman who wears the pants in the family, who is in the driver's seat, etc.

"What is less well known and is still the subject of great debate in psychoanalytic circles is men's envy of women. Underneath man's conscious contempt of woman lies a great unconscious envy. And it is envy which is at the bottom of much of his hatred and fear."

Dr. Greenson thought men's greatest reason for envying women was their ability to create life through childbearing.

"Men's creativity in art, literature, and science is their

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