8] tae surewr prow wouas concordance are not obvious. To the clinician, skipping the biological is always suspect, Adier’s concept of the “masculine protest” overlaps toa considerable degree with Freud's observations on phallic women, However, the most striking feature is the fact that Hastatthhinaietlegaddamale 'egmaaledsher” (Cen. 1,27). Aswe have said, ehisnaginterpreted, long before the audvent of mover science, to mean thatQifamsnvit fullness fuexyel We do not need vo quote verbatian the famous py passage iit Phawasensymposivin in whic makes the sume affirmation, and explaine the mutual at traction of the sexes ont of the need to restitute a whole: rman and woman, im the sex act, are twa halves which Fuse in order to reatitute the original fullness of Man. A Platone ist might say thar our bisexuality i6 a shadow of all this, sketched into the human image. Ariatomilallythe. mor been summed up by Helene Deutsch: “Woman and “Man’ have, at one time, arisen out of « ggmmon origin which is still Tiving on in the bisexual anfage in all human, wowaxnoon [39 mathe. 7 Is (ge gengeschlechilche Reste i the fegchie budget ofthe individual the taa component, male and female, must be linked in harmony" What “linked fn harmony” actually means cannot be exsily explained without going into a grent amount of clinical ebserva- tion." At any rate, the \naarelicnietlalteldadeslanbietetesiay” (ester Lebensschicksal, Helene Deutsch). The significance of this observation can hardly be exigaerated, 1 isnot only con firmed in everyday clinical experience but aso ie elds of porchiatry to which, a ist sight, it doesnot seem to apply. Now we ask ourselves: does it have implications beyond psychology? To the philosopher, nothing is purcly paycho- logical or purely biological, ‘The very fact chat through ee re ee ee 5 lowphy, the theme of “existence” versus Ba coe pair locate Soe oot ga the fence of wider impliention) Ryarycenupitical ‘This particularly tre about cour abject. The body of science, like thote corpses in at cient legends, ia alweapt in search ofa suppléntent déme Deck, Helene, im Prowse. Loe (The Hale ne mina) Coleridge made the watement,amstog for in die “Tse trwth [at peat tid mat be sidiogyosuc™ This hele for evry only peat tind Dut i 4 9ay mic we cannot ye dee wit cna Pine Compare Bellen, ET, Childhood end Seley. Norton, New York, tn ieOne Way to start off a complex subject is to,explain i he present study was rst prompted by clinical observations..of certain. abnor- The problem of @etivis -a lack of balance between action and contemplation—is said to be characteristic of our time. The man of restless:energyithe hustler, and, go-getter, is a figure familiar to, the. popular impaibations one associates this kind of life with “organi- zation men," “managerial” and “executive types.” (The very fact that many terms are coined and freely bandied about is proof that a problem is genuine.) Now whenever (we psychiatristshave an opportunity to observe this kind of person as a coe we find at the bottom of it all a (m i fe.) The observation was first made in a peculiar and unexpected context—patients suffering from peptic ulcer of the stom-ach* Many of these ulcer patients were found to be ‘andwoching ndspartaninaheishabits; Ukepshied.awey fromany,plewsure:ia-Leveiving,” (romeaccepting,tcnles- ealiitclabitalabitliinseialsasean of dicep down thete persisted an exuamdhnagypecdsto be “Despicana’nisshecrighttgr, be. cause the conflict aniiaenimalidamlamampdianadnalse bodgnommenouganicaaveleiT he patient prctests in his lie aint “being fed” while his stnenach revolts against “not henge.” However, deeiag here means much more than the intake of nouristimcnt: 1 maandenecaptinenest i a Jntge sense, receptiveness to love, ancl apenness ana child “like attitude of trust, Precisely the same attitude towards life accurs in many poopie who do not suffer fram stomach weer, but whate tundenlyiog conflicts ate Uh sume. Pagoaalts calla was The character neurosis of frensied activism is mot dificult to ‘spor, There {5 4 dagplaetiaiemernnmebnatediidhasthe 058 ecesarily the tension of subjective anxiety, but the ten» Sion of energyan aisuobsendlaalsig n