The Vigorous Male and the Aspiring Female portrays Sapir (as well as Benedict) as a tortured poet who explores his theories of personality through his poems. I found it interesting how Handler sees Sapir as an artist and as an anthropologist at the same time, because he humanizes Sapir as a figure. In which writing poetry provides an alternative method for developing a developing cultural theory that displays its concern with the “dialectic between the traditional discipline” of anthropology and “individual creativity” (134). Upon closer examination, it made sense to me that Sapir found poetry as an outlet because his anthropological work on linguistics emphasized the “aesthetic phenomena” of social behavior (136). Sapir's psychological foundation and methodology are shown in his epistemological critique of culture. In which he notes that culture is not something shared by everyone within cultural “boundaries,” but each person has a unique culture because personal history brings with it unique configurations of influence (147). This highly individualistic view of language, and consequently of the experiences that have shaped culture, gives individuals enormous agency within their culture. Therefore, Sapir fundamentally disagreed with the “superorganic” approach”.