ABSTRACT
The twentieth century has seen a new outbreak both of Utopias and of the worst kinds of outrages perpetrated against human beings. Perhaps because they have sensed the irremediable ontological rift within the human heart, some philosophers have asked history to force into growth what atrophied in it at its beginning. The sexual instinct is so powerful that it usually eclipses the ontological tragedy of our differentness. The primordial need for healing of being impels each sex toward the other. Both the harmony and disharmony between man and woman testify to their resemblance, arid because they are two inseparable segments of the human being, the ambivalence of their relation determines the texture of all human relations. Myths have even illustrated the theme of female responsibility for the evils humanity endures, war among others. Although their traditions are independent of each other, both of the wellsprings of occidental culture, the Greek and the Jewish, encouraged men's distrust of women.
