EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heterosexuality, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), Bisexuality
16 Feb 2017
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Popular conceptualized as either combination or absence of either. In fashion either as a balanced attribute of the "mind/spirit" or part of appearance. Different ways that androgyny is approached and/or valued. Androgyny as transcendent, balanced unity of "masculine" and "feminine" attributes (generally not sexual or aesthetic) Historical use of the term bisexual to denote all/any of gender, sexuality, and sex. Bisexuality crossed and often confused with "hermaphrodite" and "androgyne" because it has meant. State of exalted being, the ideal completion of humanity in a condition of transcendence. Androgyny: sexy, exciting borderline (bowie, mac jagger), sexy gender indeterminacy. Unthreatening, nonsexual borderline, perhaps even asexual gender indeterminacy spiritual transcendence, cancels the borderline altogether. Garber: describes this urge to know as non-threatening puzzlement. This androgyny figure is seen as neither sexy not particularly sexual. Androgyny as transcendent wholeness (garber is critical with jung) Jung"s archetypes, particularly the anima and the animus.
