John D. Brey
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In embryology, the primordial phallus refers to the clitoris of a female or the penis in the male, particularly during fetal development of the urinary and reproductive organs, before sexual differentiation is evident.
Wikipedia.
. . . the primordial archetype may contain the most diverse and contradictory symbols, which for consciousness are mutually exclusive ---e.g., positive and negative, male and female ----these symbols later split apart and order themselves according to the principle of opposites.
Erich Neumann, The Great Mother, p. 8.
Wikipedia.
. . . the primordial archetype may contain the most diverse and contradictory symbols, which for consciousness are mutually exclusive ---e.g., positive and negative, male and female ----these symbols later split apart and order themselves according to the principle of opposites.
Erich Neumann, The Great Mother, p. 8.
As discussed in the thread on the primordial phallus, it's the case that at a primordial stage of development, the flesh of the allegedly male organ, which is similarly the flesh of the allegedly female organ, i.e., the "primordial phallus" (balanced between both the phallus and the clitoris at a given stage in its development), there is in fact not yet, strictly speaking, male nor female; though if we speak in generalities, as can be shown, it's in fact female flesh from the get-go, such that in truth, that female nature never fully lets go.
Significantly, what's true for the primordial phallus, is, according to the renowned psychologist Erich Neumann, similarly the case for human consciousness: the primordial archetype of human thought, at a given stage in its development, isn't yet discernible as either male or female, but rather as some concatenation of both.
Nevertheless, and paradoxically, contrary to the claim that the flesh that distinguishes gender is initially, generally speaking, female, in the case of thought, and the primordial archetype of thought, the reverse is in fact the case. In truth, the primordial archetype of thought, though initially not developed into dualistic gender types, is nevertheless, generally speaking, male from the get-go, such that it never fully lets go of that distinction.
John
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