{In Two Minds}[12th August 1988]

[Redbook5:269-273][19880812:1704]{In Two Minds}[12th August 1988]

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Just been re-reading the first part of Ch[apter] 3, ‘Two Sides of the Brain’, in Ornstein ‘The Psychology of Consciousness’,* which I think [W] must have bought [for] me in Sept[ember] 1980 [(]and I am sure I have read some of it at some time[)].

I am intrigued to find that although I have got the left-right split of the Circles reasonably right (except for crafts,** which I had seen as near U~ with technicians etc. – this may be a question of degree*** – and language, which I had foolishly assumed to be with imaginative literature on the holistic side – I hope I am right about imaginative literature) – in everyday jocularity, I have reversed the perceived tradition,**** awarding women sequential (eg language) and men spatial thought. There is some practical justification for this: notoriously, women can talk faster but # can’t read a map. So what we perceive in ourselves (ie ‘male’ activities, ‘female’ revelations) may not correspond at all with actual gender specialisation – if there is any. It may, after all, be a matter of practice in actual behaviour.#*

*Jonathan Cape, 1975 (1972[)]

**& Sports! <880813>

***! – ie [a question of] of one’s understanding of [exactly] what is meant by ‘crafts’

****[sic]
[But see next entry but one, [Redbook5:270][19880812:1704c]{In Two Minds [continued (3)]}[12th August 1988]]

#[(stereotypically)]

#*PTO [[Redbook5:270][19880812:1704c]{In Two Minds}[12th August 1988]f]

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