Positivity vis-à-vis Negativity
in Sensuality and Sensibility. Anyone
who reads my mature aphoristic philosophy, which is to say texts written during
the past few years, will know that I distinguish between female and male on the
basis of free soma/bound psyche in sensuality and free psyche/bound soma in
sensibility, so that the genders are forever at loggerheads as somatic/psychic
antitheses in which either soma triumphs over psyche, as with sensuality, or
psyche triumphs over soma, as with sensibility. And this happens on both phenomenal and noumenal,
corporeal and ethereal, terms, as between the planes of volume and mass for
physics and chemistry, not to mention antichemistry
and antiphysics, and the planes of space and time for metachemistry and metaphysics,
not to mention antimetaphysics and antimetachemistry.
Hence the genders present us with an axial compass, as it were, which either
descends/counter-ascends from metachemistry and antimetaphysics to physics and antichemistry or, conversely, ascends/counter-descends from
chemistry and antiphysics to metaphysics and antimetachemistry,
taking the first elemental term in each pairing as hegemonic irrespective of
gender and of the modifying effects of inter-axial relativity across the noumenal/phenomenal 'class' divide. The axes are a
good deal more complicated than this, but I have gone into that often enough in
my mature philosophical works and need not elaborate on them here.
Suffice it to say that if, when free, females are basically about free soma and
bound psyche, free body and bound mind, and males, by contrast, about free
psyche and bound soma, free mind and bound body, then females will be naturally
more disposed to external, or somatic, calmness and males, by contrast, to
internal, or psychic, calmness - at least when they are free to be either
sensually hegemonic, as in the female case, or sensibly hegemonic, as in the
male case. For the converse of such antithetical hegemonies will of
course be subservience or subordination to the prevailing gender, be it female
or male (as in the case, for example, of antiphysics to chemistry at the
southwest point of the axial compass or, indeed, of antichemistry
to physics at its southeast point), and in those cases we can expect males to
demonstrate more external aggression and females more internal aggression,
since the converse of male psychic calmness, or passivity, will be male somatic
aggression, while the converse of female somatic passivity will be female
psychic aggression. Hence while females are generally more externally
calm than males they become, under male hegemonic pressure in sensibility,
internally, or psychically, more aggressive, whereas males, though generally
more internally calm than females, become, under female hegemonic pressure in
sensuality, externally, or somatically, more aggressive. Think of the
sexual act. Coitus is generally a context in which the female is sexually
passive and the male sexually aggressive, and this is consonant with a female
hegemony in sensuality in which somatic passivity is triumphant over somatic
aggression, or activity. Cheerleaders presiding at or, rather, over a
male sporting context of a certain sensually-biased stamp are also indicative
of this kind of sensual situation in which comparative female passivity is
juxtaposed (hegemonically) with male activity of a
somatically aggressive nature. On the other hand, females are likely to
become more internally, or psychically, aggressive under male hegemonic
pressures in sensibility, since mental calmness in the male excites the female
to psychic aggression and often serves to facilitate her maternal interests in
respect of offspring. The 'nagging wife' syndrome is significant here,
and this is the other side of the matrimonial coin, if I can put it like that,
which rather contrasts with coitus and male somatic aggression generally.
Females, in sum, are more mentally aggressive in sensibility than males but
this, paradoxically, is due to male hegemonic pressure in sync with their
gender reality of psyche preceding and preponderating over soma in such fashion
than psychic calmness is the norm. Males, on the other hand, are more
somatically aggressive in sensuality than females, and this, paradoxically, is
due to female hegemonic pressure in sync with their gender reality of soma preceding and predominating over psyche
in such fashion that somatic calmness is the norm. The psychically
aggressive female is no more representative of female gender freedom than is
the somatically aggressive male of male gender freedom. Each alike are at
cross-purposes with their respective gender realities, but that is only because
of hegemonic pressures stemming from the opposite gender. Verily, life is
a gender tug-of-war between class and/or axial
manifestations of sensuality and sensibility, soma and psyche.