中间性 - 导言

历史的脚注：神话与炼金术

在全世界，从古至今人们就知晓了中间性并进行了评述，可是，不同的文化却以非常不同的方式来对待它。不同的文化不仅用不同的术语来描述中间性，而且也提炼出不同的概念来解释它。既然解释中间性的某些概念在西方哲学和艺术的历史中已经起了举足轻重的作用，我们不妨在此添注两例脚注：

1. 在许多有关创世纪的古代神话中，在古典史诗里，甚至在哲学辩论中都出现了双性人。在此，我们只是追忆人们熟知的古希腊历史中的事例。

2. 合阴阳(“雌雄同体，hermaphroditism”)在中世纪的炼金术中也是一个基本的概念。太阳(金色、阳性)和月亮(银色、阴性)的符号通常被整合在一起，形成了一个新的尽善尽美的双性符号。在此，我们仅提供某些很基本的背景知识。

Intersexuality - Introduction

Historical Footnotes: Mythology and Alchemy

Intersexuality has been known and observed since ancient times all over the world, but different cutures have dealt with it very differently. They not only used different terms to describe it, but also developed different concepts to explain it. Since some of these concepts have played an important role in the history of Western philosophy and art, we are adding here two footnotes:

1. Double-sexed persons appear in many ancient myths about the creation of the world, in classical epics, and even in philosophical discussions. Here, we reproduce only one well-known example from ancient Greece.

2. Combining male and female elements (“hermaphroditism”) was also an essential concept in medieval alchemy. The symbols of the sun (gold, male) and the moon (silver, female) were often joined to form a new double-sexed symbol of perfection. Here we provide only some very basic background information.