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The article presents the views on the “masculine” and the “feminine” and the prospects of gender metamorphosis in the works of poet, aesthetician, philosopher A.K. Gorsky (1886–1943). Relying on Plato’s myth of the androgynes, on the idea of transfiguration declared in Christianity and Gnosticism, Gorsky asserts the bisexual nature of any personality seeking to overcome incompleteness, fragmentation through erotic striving and identification with the other sex, to gain integrity, which for Gorsky is equivalent to immortality, the transformed status of a person. While considering male (ejaculatory-pointwise, functioning on the principle of support) and female (cloud magnetic, developing according to the mirror principle of identification) types of eroticism, he deems the latter to be the most productive, associating with it the psychophysiology of the creative act. Reinterpreting and transforming the achievements of psychoanalytic theory, Gorsky combines them with the concept of transformed Eros, which developed in Russian religious philosophy (N. Fedorov, Vl. Solovyov), and puts forward the ideal of resurrection eroticism, while finding its origins in the works of A. Pushkin, A.K. Tolstoy, Russian Symbolists. The poetic experiments of A.K. Gorsky, revealing the peculiarities of his perception of the “male” and the “female”, his metaphysics of girlhood and motherhood, and artistically embodying the theme of the metamorphosis of love, are considered.