ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes a useful binary, receptivity and potency, around which individuals may render, sift, refract, and otherwise live out their relationship to gendered and sexual being. It proposes that the achievement of healthy psychological functioning is characterized by the ability to flexibly alternate among these positions as contexts change and evoke different stances and modes of relating. Such flex could be characterized by permeability or accessibility 'in the spaces between' positions such that different self-states remain as potentially emergent when not engaged or actualized. In a superordinate manner, there are many Embodied Subjects as patterns evoke or engage modes of relating, cultivated through self-other identifications. The position of the Embodied Subject reflects the capacity for immersion in immediate experience that is, in some measure, both affectively attuned and agentic.
