Since as far as we can recollect, man and woman have been considered two sides of one coin. It is believed that each has its own characteristics and when the two are put together, a union perfect in nature is created.
In the The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm said that the basis of our need to love lies in the experience of separateness and the resulting need to overcome the anxiety of separateness by the experience of union.
Does this mean that we can never feel complete in ourselves? What about those who choose to remain celibate and abstain from sex?
It may be said that such persons seek wholeness or the absence of fragmentation within.
Is this achievable?
In the words of David Bohm, “Men have been aware from time immemorial of this state of apparently autonomously existent fragmentation and have often projected myths of a yet earlier ‘golden age’ before the split between man and nature and between man and man had yet taken place. Indeed, man has always been seeking wholeness – mental, physical, social, individual.”
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