{"id":784,"date":"2018-06-19T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/?p=784"},"modified":"2018-06-19T05:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:52:26","slug":"gucci-great-hermaphrodite-mid-life-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/gucci-great-hermaphrodite-mid-life-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;A La Gucci&#8221; Great Hermaphrodite and Why We Hit Mid-Life Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What is in there for me: What is behind the mid-life crisis? Why suicides and divorces surge in the second half of life? What keeps us from being happy? Ultimately, are we all hermaphrodites? Too many questions for a short post, but believe me, you\u2019ll at least get a hint.<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>The full post starts here.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A year ago Alessandro Michele dressed The \u201cA la Gucci Great Hermaphrodite\u201d with a red Gucci T-shirt for GucciCuise18. As usual, the reactions were everything from revulsion to admiration. I am not about that. What I want to talk about is how Gucci, unknowingly or maybe knowingly tapped on a symbol that holds so much for our mental well-being \u2013 The Great Hermaphrodite.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-797\" style=\"width: 822px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-797\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the_great_hermaphrodite-e1529329589189.jpg?resize=822%2C1029&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Great Hermaphrodite. We are psychologically wired to recognize and integrate the \u201copposite gender\u201d within. Only then we tend to find meaning in our lives. This process is symbolized as the Great Hermaphrodite in alchemy. 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We are psychologically wired to recognize and integrate the \u201copposite gender\u201d within. Only then we tend to find meaning in our lives. This process is symbolized as the Great Hermaphrodite in alchemy. Photo: The Internet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/sexuality_spirituality_same_thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read about Why sexuality and spirituality in fact are two sides of the coin in the depth of our mind<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/louis_vuitton_polka_dots_sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read about Yayoi Kusama\u2019s overly sexual art and how her uncontrollable energies took her on this journey<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Ops, We all are hermaphrodites&#8230;but without Gucci<\/h4>\n<p>It is a rather complex symbol. I\u2019ll start from where we all know. Everybody knows that due to our biological structure, men carry small amount of female hormones, and women small amount of male hormones.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s look at the psychological side of it. As usual, the resonance goes very far in the depth of our mind \u2013 it means in every man there is a small, hidden woman and in each woman some hidden man. That small woman inside man is called Anima (man\u2019s soul). It is one of the unconscious forces of very strong power because it is deeply hidden. \u00a0Animus is on the contrary the man inside woman.<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;The other side&#8221; within<\/h4>\n<p>Attention, now we are not talking strictly about genders now. Below the threshold of the consciousness, there is no duality. Now we are talking about the qualities that are ascribed to the feminine nature (receptivity, passivity, sentimentality etc) and the masculine nature (reasoning, action, penetration etc). The Anima is responsible for all of the female tendencies in man\u2019s psyche and is an aspect of personality that normally is concealed from everybody, even the owner himself.<\/p>\n<h4>The Cycle of Life &#8211; sexuality and &#8220;the other&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>Accept or not, during the first half of life sexuality is central to our being. Strictly talking about men, at this period, they keep polishing their \u201cmanly characters\u201d, ego, thirst for power etc. But as we step into the second half of our lives and slowly leave sexuality behind, our nature changes. A spontaneous desire is born inside for spiritual growth and maturity. The female aspects within are what guide the man to learn to control his animalistic instincts and lead him to maturity. The same tendencies happen with women too, but everything reversed.<\/p>\n<h4>Divorce, suicide and more &#8211; even Gucci can&#8217;t help<\/h4>\n<p>At this period, when internal tendencies change towards spirituality and maturity, we still like to cling on to our previous life style and desires. That\u2019s when a separation in our psyche starts to take place. Dressed in Gucci, or no Gucci, we constantly feel something is missing. That\u2019s when, instead of opening up to the hidden tendencies, we start to blame our partners. The wider this psychological divergence, the more serious are the consequences (anything from depression to divorce to suicide).<\/p>\n<p>In short, we are psychologically wired to recognize and integrate the \u201copposite gender\u201d within. Only then we tend to find meaning in our lives. This process of integration of the psychic polar opposites is what symbolized as the Great Hermaphrodite in alchemy. In many other cultures it is also known as the Sacred Union or Sacred Marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/sexuality_spirituality_same_thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read about Why sexuality and spirituality in fact are two sides of the coin in the depth of our mind<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fashionsymbols.com\/staging\/2950\/louis_vuitton_polka_dots_sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read about Yayoi Kusama\u2019s overly sexual art and how her uncontrollable energies took her on this journey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is in there for me: What is behind the mid-life crisis? Why suicides and divorces surge in the second half of life? What keeps us from being happy? Ultimately, are we all hermaphrodites? Too many questions for a short post, but believe me, you\u2019ll at least get a hint. The full post starts here. 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