Feminine (Belonging) Conflict

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.

The feminine conflict arises from the psyche's experience of being excluded from, losing, or fearing the loss of a social group, nest, family, or place of belonging. Unlike the territorial conflict – which concerns the active claiming and defending of a territory – the feminine conflict concerns the receptive experience of being welcomed into and held within a group or partnership. The feminine conflict, at its core, is an intimacy or sexual conflict due to rebuff or rejection of the feminine.

While territorial conflicts are about fear of loss of territory, loss of territory, or difficulty managing or demarcating territory, the feminine conflict is about fear of rejection from the territory, or actual rejection (the most extreme version of which is sexual rejection or sexual assault, which the psyche registers in the same way), or difficulty occupying space within the territory — knowing one's place, knowing what position to take.

A feminine conflict is a biological conflict involving bonding and intimacy, belonging, or relational security. It has nothing to do with the mother-child or partner distinction.

A feminine conflict has four possible aspects:

• Scare-fright – fear of the container becoming unsafe/compromised. A feminine scare-fright conflict will relay through either the bronchial relay on the right temporal lobe or the laryngeal relay on the left temporal lobe.
• Sexual conflict – intimate rejection or assault, both of which are perceived the same way in the psyche. A sexual conflict will relay 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 – a conflict of having been expelled from the container because one has created disruption in the territory. An identity conflict will either relay to the lining of esophagus and stomach, the liver duct, the gall duct, or the pancreatic duct if it relays through the right temporal lobe; or to the rectum if it relays through the left temporal lobe.
• Feminine placement conflict – difficulty finding/knowing where one belongs, rests, sits, settles, or is permitted to be within the territory, and needing to constantly check for limits. A feminine placement conflict will relay to the left side of the urinary tract if it involves the right temporal lobe, or the right side of the urinary tract if it relays 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").

As with territorial conflicts, subsequent temporal lobe conflicts relay through the opposite temporal lobe from the first, and two simultaneously-active temporal lobe conflicts produce a schizophrenic constellation.