contrasexual

English

Etymology

From contra- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

contrasexual (comparative more contrasexual, superlative most contrasexual)

1. (Jungian psychology, of part of the psyche) Having characteristics of the opposite gender.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:

     Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.

   • 1987, Benjamin G. Lockerd, Edmund Spenser, The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in the Faerie Queene, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 30:

     If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur.

   • 1997, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN:

     The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.

   • 2012, David Tacey, The Jung Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:

     While Jung's theory of the contrasexual component of the personality seems radical in certain respects, there are other parts of it which are conservative.