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From: haas@utah-gr.UUCP (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "The Invisible Partners"
Message-ID: <1528@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 20:09:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 20:09:27 1985
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> I recently read a book entitled "The Invisible Partners", by (I think) John
> Sanford... [which] explored how each person has within him or her an
> "invisible partner", a feminine or masculine (respectively) side of the
> personality.  He used the terms "anima" for the feminine side of a man, and
> "animus" for the masculine side of a woman.  [JEFF SARGENT]

I ran into an interesting variation of this several years ago.  My wife
(now ex-) and I were in marriage counseling.  At the start of counseling,
we took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), which
is a widely-used personality measure.  One of the measurements which comes
out of the MMPI is called the "masculine/feminine" score.  To my surprise,
I came out extremely feminine (more that two standard deviations from the
mean)!  Now, I am a heterosexual male with a strong interest in outdoor
sports, and no inclination at all to act effeminate.  Why did the MMPI
label me "strongly feminine"?  The counselor explained that, when the test
was invented shortly after World War II, "masculine" meant "interested
in hunting and fishing and not interested in the fine arts", whereas
"feminine" meant the reverse.  Since my time in the mountains is spent in
technical rock climbing or wilderness skiing, not in hunting or fishing,
and since I like the fine arts, I'm feminine (according to the MMPI).
Maybe I should go out and buy a skirt....

Cheers  -- Walt Haas   ...{decvax | ihnp4 | seismo}!utah-cs!haas