著者

金山 梨花 カナヤマ リカ Rika Kanayama

雑誌

国際基督教大学学報. II-B, 社会科学ジャーナル = The Journal of Social Science

巻号頁・発行日

no.60, pp.243-265, 2007-03-31

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Gender can be rightly considered as the "universal otherness" regardless of cultural, ethnic, and/or national differences. This paper argues that masculinity/femininity in gender is the most familiar cultural differences and by practicing releases its "spiritual personality" via cross-cultural translation. Also, it further posits that understanding gender relations the sine qua non for the existence of each other belonging as a whole person. By deconstructing gender in two parts, each part becomes deformed, plagued, contaminated with its viability being lost. Similarly, Jung explains gender as a goal for personality formation, the concept of integrating masculinity and femininity arises in educating the original "self through liberating his or her contra-sexual archetypes in universal unconsciousness: "anima" refers to the latent femininity in man; and "animus" refers to the latent masculinity in women. The gender relations are meant not only to promote cooperation as fellow beings, but to translate each others' differences in order to activate creative spirituality as a unique personality. In this sense, the term "gender-free" points to the releasing spiritual-level individual identity, rather than females advancing and assimilating in androcentric society, or females becoming andro-genized or vice versa. This puts the border differences between males and females in adaptable and heterogeneous, equivocal binary opposition of males and females, allowing further pursuit for a new "female culture" or "male culture. "Thus, "gender-free" does not mean the demise of differences, but the emergence of the spiritual person within through gender cross-cultural translation.