Feminine (Belonging) Conflict — GNM Glossary

Where a territorial conflict asks, "Can I claim, protect, or regain my territory?" a feminine conflict asks, "Do I belong here? Am I received here? Am I safe within this container?" It belongs to the feminine/receptive mode of psychic organization: sensing, feeling, discerning, and relating.

If the masculine claims and defends the container, the feminine is, and dwells within, that container. (As the territorial conflict puts it: the feminine — sensing, feeling, discerning, receiving, and relating, especially sexually — is itself the territory) So where the masculine conflict is about holding the territory, the feminine conflict is about being received and safely held within it. (Masculine = holding, feminine = being held)

The feminine conflict arises from an individual's experience of feeling excluded from, losing, or fearing the loss of a social group, nest, family, or place of belonging. Its most acute expression is sexual: the feminine principle is the realm of intimacy and vulnerability, so an intimate rebuff or rejection registers as the sharpest form of the feminine conflict. But the sexual conflict is one of four aspects of feminine conflict, not the whole of it.

A feminine conflict is a biological conflict involving bonding and intimacy, belonging, or relational security. Like all temporal-lobe conflicts, it relays through the cerebral cortex (ectoderm); however, although laterality is relevant to which temporal lobe becomes involved, the feminine conflict has nothing to do with the mother-child or partner relationship distinction.

The four aspects. These are the same four temporal-lobe relays as the territorial (masculine) conflicts; hormone status determines whether a given relay is relaying a masculine (territorial) or feminine (belonging) form. Each feminine aspect is paired below with its territorial counterpart:

Scare-fright (the feminine form of territorial fear) – fear of the container becoming unsafe or compromised. Relays through either the bronchial relay on the right temporal lobe or the laryngeal relay on the left temporal lobe.
Sexual conflict (the feminine form of territorial loss) – intimate rejection or assault, both of which are perceived the same way in the psyche. Relays either to the coronary arteries and vas deferens through the right temporal lobe, or to the coronary veins and uterine cervix through the left temporal lobe.
Identity conflict (the feminine form of territorial anger) – having been or being expelled from the container because one has created disruption in the territory. Relays to the lining of esophagus and small curvature of the stomach, or the lining of the liver duct, the gall duct, or the pancreatic duct through the right temporal lobe; or to the lining of the rectum (rectal mucosa) through the left temporal lobe.
Placement conflict (the feminine form of territorial demarcation) – difficulty finding or knowing where one belongs, rests, settles, or is permitted to be within the territory, and needing to constantly check for limits. Relays to the left side of the urinary tract through the right temporal lobe, or the right side of the urinary tract through the left temporal lobe.

Who Experiences a Feminine Conflict
A feminine conflict is experienced by any individual who is in feminine hormone status at the moment of the DHS. A female is ordinarily in feminine hormone status and will therefore respond to a belonging/rejection conflict with a feminine conflict, unless:

she is in masculine hormone status because of changed estrogen:testosterone ratios in pregnancy, nursing, or menopause; or
her hormone status has been altered by endocrine conditions or a prior temporal-lobe conflict.

After the first temporal lobe conflict, whether an individual experiences a feminine conflict or a territorial conflict is not determined by biological sex, but by hormone status: any individual in feminine hormone status will experience a feminine (belonging) conflict rather than a territorial (masculine) conflict.

Temporal Lobe Relays and Rule of Weight
The temporal lobe relays and rule of weight for feminine conflicts are the same as for territorial conflicts.

For a first feminine conflict:

A right-handed female (or a right-handed male in feminine hormone status) will relay the conflict through the left temporal lobe. This causes a reduction in estrogen levels, resulting in a relatively higher testosterone level. This causes masculinization ("mania").

A left-handed female (or a left-handed male in feminine hormone status) will relay the conflict through the right temporal lobe. This causes a reduction in testosterone levels, producing increased passivity ("depression").

For a second feminine conflict:

With both territorial and feminine conflicts, a second temporal lobe conflict will relay through the opposite temporal lobe from the first. Two simultaneously-active temporal lobe conflicts produce a schizophrenic constellation.