Gender crossing as caesura versus gender crossing as cut

This chapter focuses on the conditions which enable the establishing of a dialectic and unsaturated gender space – one that enables both a concrete and fantasised creative mobility between the two gender poles – versus the conditions which generate a polar, saturated, gender dichotomous stagnation and stasis. Gender dichotomy is probably the most primary dichotomy internalised in human thinking, acting as a prototype for all the later dichotomies, in a sense inaugurating dichotomous thinking in general – first in the imaginary of the parent who holds the soon-to-be-born infant in his or her mind – and afterwards in the infant's mind. The chapter also contains two short discussions of these points.