A territorial conflict is a masculine temporal-lobe conflict concerning the claiming, securing, protecting, defending, or regaining of territory.

The masculine (“yang”) aspect of an organism’s psyche asserts, directs, claims, protects, judges, and organizes territory.

(The feminine, or “yin” aspect of the psyche – sensing, feeling, discerning, receiving, and relating, especially sexually – is the territory) 

Territory is the perceived (in the psyche) spatial and social domain within and over which an organism has priority of access to resources, mates, and safety. The ability to claim, defend, and inhabit a territory is fundamental to sexual reproduction and survival of groups, not just in social animals, but in the vast majority of vertebrate species. 

“Territory” may refer to literal space, social position, sexual access, authority, livelihood, family role, relational standing, or any other domain the psyche organizes as “mine to claim, care for, and protect.”

Territory is that about which the masculine says, “This is mine,” and then cherishes, provides for, and protects (even at the expense of life itself). Within the psyche, it is that which we hold as valuable and necessary for our life to have purpose and meaning.

The masculine then:

• sets goals,
• initiates,
• judges,
• leads,
• organizes, and
• takes action to correct

all in relation to sustaining and stabilizing the territory (and those within it). 

Thus, the territory is both the “container” of the individual organism’s “net worth,” and that organism’s legacy.

A territorial conflict has four possible aspects:

1. Territorial fear – fear of loss of territory, due to slander, dishonesty, a more powerful competitor, etc.
   A territorial fear conflict will relay through either the bronchial relay on the right temporal lobe or the laryngeal relay on the left temporal lobe.
2. Territorial loss – loss of access to property, income, a position of status, sexual partner(s), or any other concept that has been cherished, provided for, and protected.
   A territorial loss conflict will relay either to the coronary arteries and vas deferens through the right temporal lobe or to the coronary veins through the left temporal lobe.
3. Territorial anger – elements within the territory are creating disruption and must be expelled from the territory.
   A territorial anger 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.
4. Territorial demarcation – difficulty marking the boundaries of the territory, requiring constant reassertion of a part or aspect of the territory.
   A territorial demarcation 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.

Territorial conflicts are always experienced from masculine hormone status and the masculine principle of directive action. An individual organism only experiences territory when that individual is in masculine hormone status, meaning the level of testosterone within the brain is relatively greater than the level of estrogen.

A male is in masculine hormone status by default, and anyone in masculine hormone status is concerned with territory. All males who do not have active temporal lobe conflicts or any other endocrine-disrupting conditions (including andropause), will perceive and respond in relation to territory.

(A female only experiences a territorial conflict after shifting into masculine hormone status. She will immediately lose interest in territory if she resolves her temporal lobe conflicts)

Territorial conflicts are mediated by the temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex. Whether the territorial conflict is relayed from the left temporal lobe or the right temporal lobe depends on:

1. the individual’s laterality, and
2. whether there is already conflict activity in one or both temporal lobes.

For a first territorial conflict:

• a left-handed male (or a left-handed female in masculine hormone status due to pregnancy, nursing, menopause, or endocrine-affecting substances or changes in endocrine-producing organs) will respond with the left temporal lobe. This will decrease his estrogen production, and he will now perceive and respond with even more territorial aggression (“mania”).
• a right-handed male (or a right-handed female in masculine hormone status) will respond with the right temporal lobe. This will decrease his testosterone production, and he will now perceive and respond with passivity and decreased interest in territory (“depression”).

Only a left-handed male (or a left-handed female in masculine hormone status) can experience a second temporal lobe conflict as a territorial conflict. A right-handed male (or a right-handed female in masculine hormone status) will shift into feminine hormone status with their first territorial conflict.

Any individual with two or more active temporal lobe conflicts will be perceiving and protecting territory if his or her testosterone level is relatively higher than his or her estrogen level. However, the individual with two or more active temporal lobe conflicts will be in schizophrenic constellation and will be, to one degree or another, experiencing psychosis, causing them to respond to territory in a more or less inaccurate, avoidant, or distorted way.

A female who resolves all her temporal lobe conflicts will immediately lose interest in territory.