MALE AND FEMALE: THE SYMBOLIC ASPECT


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The article deals with the symbolic perception of separation of the sexes, which found its reflection in the outlook. The symbol does not arise from a single source, and can be adapted in response to requests from different eras, religions, cults and civilizations. Exclusivity characteristic of all primitive and immature character - and this is something which includes the capacity for expansion. One character can be many and varied applications that can be ambivalent or multi-valued in accordance with the additional relatedness. The symbol can also be simultaneously esoteric and exoteric value, so that the most obvious and commonplace interpretation is not always complete and may be only a half-truth: it can simultaneously open something, but something to hide. The author's content analysis allows us to conclude that the active principle of nature is portrayed phallic symbols, passive - female. Integrity dualistic universe implies the unity of complementary opposites, the union of male and female primordial forces - androgynous characters. In the symbolic system of the floor associated with cultural content of the system in accordance with its social attitudes and hierarchy.

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Snezhana Vladimirovna Yavon

Volga Region State University of Service, Togliatti

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Email: yawo2006.yavon@yandex.ru

doctor of sociological sciences, associate professor of the chair «Social technology»

Russian Federation

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