{Love, Sex and Marriage [continued]}[27th August 1990]

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The C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] paradigm for marriage is the horizontal link across the circles between g~ and m~, joining the two semi-circles (ideally, the two hemi-spheres) along the vertical axis C-A~* (or the vertical plane F-C-I-A~ in the case of the hemispheres).

It is not correct to say that the g~ semicircle represents the female and the m~ semicircle represents the male, although there is certainly a tendency that way.

However, what does come out of the C[ircles] A[nalysis &] S[ynthesis] model is the contrast between the full marriage, which incorporates the whole circle (and ideally the whole sphere); and a narrow marriage, which is simply a horizontal link across the circle[,] between g~ and m~ – or even, I suppose, G~ and M~.**

*[The ms has M~ here, which is clearly a mistake for A~ (as elsewhere, most likely due to the coincidence of initials of fictional first names); the vertical axis is C-A~; C-M~ would not be an axis.]

**[ie lower case for Inner Circle, upper case for Outer Circle. Presumably, there can be marriages that fall anywhere between the states of ‘full’ and ‘narrow’ marriage.]

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