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On the development of general conceptions - Male and female -
Contradictions - Transitional forms - Anatomy and natural endowment
- Uncertainty of anatomy
CHAPTER I
MALES AND FEMALES . . . 5
Embryonic neutral condition - Rudiments in the adult - Degrees of
“gonochorism” - Principle of intermediate forms - Male
and female - Need for typical conceptions - Resumé - Early
anticipations
CHAPTER II
MALE AND FEMALE PLASMAS . . . 11
Position of sexuality - Steenstrup's view adopted - Sexual
characters - Internal secretions - Idioplasm - Arrhenoplasm -
Thelyplasm - Variations - Proofs from the effects of castration -
Transplantation and transfusion - Organotherapy - Individual
differences between cells - Origin of intermediate sexual
conditions - Brain - Excess of male births - Determination of sex -
Comparative pathology {xvi}
CHAPTER III
THE LAWS OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION . . . 26
Sexual preference - Probability of these being controlled by a law
- First formula - First interpretation - Proofs - Heterostylism -
Interpretation of heterostylism - Animal kingdom - Further laws -
Second formula - Chemotaxis - Resemblances and differences -
Goethe, Elective Affinities - Marriage and free love -
Effects on progeny
CHAPTER IV
HOMO-SEXUALITY AND PEDERASTY . . . 45
Homo-sexuals as intermediate forms - Inborn or acquired, healthy or
diseased? - A special instance of the law of attraction - All men
have the rudiments of homo-sexuality - Friendship and sexuality -
Animals - Failure of medical treatment - Homo-sexuality, punishment
and ethics - Distinction between homo-sexuality and pederasty
CHAPTER V
THE SCIENCE OF CHARACTER AND THE SCIENCE OF FORM . . . 53
Principle of sexually intermediate forms as fundamental principle
of the psychology of individuals - Simultaneity or periodicity? -
Methods of psychological investigation - Examples - Individualised
education - Conventionalising - Parallelism between morphology and
characterology - Physiognomy and the principles of psycho-physics -
Method of the doctrine of Variation - A new way of stating the
problem - Deductive morphology - Correlation - Outlook
CHAPTER VI
EMANCIPATED WOMEN . . . 64
The woman question - Claim for emancipation and maleness -
Emancipation and homo-sexuality - Sexual preferences of emancipated
women - Physiognomy of emancipated women - Other celebrated women -
Femaleness and emancipation - {xvii}
Practical rules - Genius essentially male - Movements of women in
historical times - Periodicity - Biology and the conception of
history - Outlook of the woman movement - Its fundamental error
CHAPTER I
MAN AND WOMAN . . . 79
Bisexuality and unisexuality - Man or woman, male or female -
Fundamental difficulty in characterology - Experiment, analysis of
Sensation and psychology - Dilthey - Conception of empirical
character - What is and what is not the object of psychology -
Character and individuality - Problem of characterology and the
problem of the sexes
CHAPTER II
MALE AND FEMALE SEXUALITY . . . 85
The problem of a female psychology - Man as the Interpreter of
female psychology - Differences in the sexual impulse - The
absorbing and liberating factors - Intensity and activity - Sexual
irritability of women - Larger field of the sexual life in woman -
Local differences in the perception of sexuality - Local and
periodical cessation of male sexuality - Differences in the degrees
of consciousness of sexuality
CHAPTER III
MALE AND FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS . . . 93
Sensation and feeling - Avenarius' division into
“element” and “character” These inseparable
at the earliest stage - Process of “clarification” -
Presentiments - Grades of understanding - Forgetting - Paths and
Organisation - Conception of “henids” - The henid as
the simplest, psychical datum - Sexual differences in the
Organisation of the contents of {xviii}
the mind - Sensibility - Certainty of judgment - Developed
consciousness as a male character
CHAPTER IV
TALENT AND GENIUS . . . 103
Genius and talent - Genius and giftedness - Methods - Comprehension
of many men - What is meant by comprehending men - Great complexity
of genius - Periods in psychic life - No disparagement of famous
men - Understanding and noticing - Universal consciousness of
genius - Greatest distance from the henid stage - A higher grade of
maleness - Genius always universal - The female devoid of genius or
of hero-worship - Giftedness and sex
CHAPTER V
TALENT AND MEMORY . . . 114
Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts - Memory of
experiences a sign of genius - Remarks and conclusions -
Remembrance and apperception - Capacity for comparison and
acquisition - Reasons for the masculinity of music, drawing and
painting - Degrees of genius - Relation of genius to ordinary men -
Autobiography - Fixed ideas - Remembrance of personal creations -
Continuous and discontinuance memory - Continuity and piety - Past
and present - Fast and future - Desire for immortality - Existing
psychological explanations - True origin - Inner development of man
until death - Ontogenetic psychology or theoretical biography -
Woman lacking in the desire for immortality - Further extension of
relation of memory to genius - Memory and time - Postulate of
timelessness - Value as a timeless quality - First law of the
theory of value - Proofs - Individuation and duration constituents
of value - Desire for immortality a special case - Desire for
immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his universal
memory and the duration of his creations - Genius and history -
Genius and nations - Genius and language - Men of action and men of
science, not to be called men of genius - Philosophers, founders of
religion and artists have genius {xix}
CHAPTER VI
MEMORY, LOGIC AND ETHICS . . . 142
Psychology and “psychologismus” - Value of memory -
Theory of memory - Doctrines of practice and of association -
Confusion with recognition - Memory peculiar to man - Moral
significance - Lies - Transition to logic - Memory and the
principle of identity - Memory and the syllogism - Woman
non-logical and non-ethical - Intellectual and moral knowledge -
The intelligible ego
CHAPTER VII
LOGIC, ETHICS AND THE EGO . . . 153
Critics of the conception of the Ego - Hume: Lichtenberg, Mach -
The ego of Mach and biology - Individuation and individuality -
Logic and ethics as witnesses for the existence of the ego - Logic
- Laws of identity and of contraries - Their use and significance -
Logical axioms as the laws of essence - Kant and Fichte - Freedom
of thought and freedom of the will - Ethics - Relation to logic -
The psychology of the Kantian ethics - Kant and Nietzsche
CHAPTER VIII
THE “I” PROBLEM AND GENIUS . . . 163
Characterology and the belief in the “I” - Awakening of
the ego - Jean Paul, Novalis, Schelling - The awakening of the ego
and the view of the world - Self-consciousness and arrogance - The
view of the genius to be more highly valued than that of other men
- Final Statements as to the idea of genius - The personality of
the genius as the perfectly-conscious microcosm - The naturally-
synthetic activity of genius - Significant and symbolical -
Definition of the genius in relation to ordinary men - Universality
as freedom - Morality or immorality of genius? - Duties towards
self and others - What duty to another is - Criticism of moral
sympathy and social ethics - Understanding of other men as the one
require-{xx}ment of morality and
knowledge - I and thou - Individualism and universalism - Morality
only in monads - The man of greatest genius as the most moral man -
Why man is ζωον
πολιτικον -
Consciousness and morality - The great criminal - Genius as duty
and submission - Genius and crime - Genius and insanity - Man as
his own creator
CHAPTER IX
MALE AND FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY . . . 186
Soullessness of woman - History of this knowledge - Woman devoid of
genius - No masculine women m the true sense - The unconnectedness
of woman's nature due to her want of an ego - Revision of the
henid-theory - Female “thought” - Idea and object -
Freedom of the object - Idea and judgment - Nature of judgment -
Woman and truth as a criterion of thought - Woman and logic - Woman
non-moral, not immoral - Woman and solitude - Womanly sympathy and
modesty - The ego of women - Female vanity - Lack of true
self-appreciation - Memory for compliments - Introspection and
repentance - Justice and jealousy - Name and individuality -
Radical difference between male and female mental life - Psychology
with and without soul - Is psychology a science? - Soul and
psychology - Problem of the influence of the psychical sexual
characters of the male or the female
CHAPTER X
MOTHERHOOD AND PROSTITUTION . . . 214
Special characterology of woman - Mother and prostitute - Relation
of two types to the child - Woman polygamous - Analogies between
motherhood and sexuality - Motherhood and the race - Maternal love
ethically indifferent - The prostitute careless of the race - The
prostitute, the criminal and the conqueror - Emperor and prostitute
- Motive of the prostitute - Coitus an end in itself - Coquetry -
The sensations of the woman in coitus in relation to the rest of
her life - The prostitute as the enemy - The friend of life and its
enemy - No Prostitution amongst animals - Its origin a mystery
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CHAPTER XI
EROTICS AND AESTHETICS . . . 236
Women, and the hatred of women - Erotics and sexuality - Platonic
love - The idea of love - Beauty of women - Relation to sexual
impulse - Love and beauty - Difference between aesthetics, logic
and ethics - Modes of love - Projection phenomena - Beauty and
morality - Nature and ethics - Natural and artistic beauty - Sexual
love as guilt - Hate, love and morality - Creation of the devil -
Love and sympathy - Love and shyness - Love and vanity - Love of
woman as a means to an end - Relation between the child and love,
the child and sexuality - Love and murder - Madonna-worship -
Madonna, a male idea, without basis in womanhood - Woman sexual,
not erotic - Sense of beauty in women - How man acts on woman - The
fate of the woman - Why man loves woman
CHAPTER XII
THE NATURE OF WOMAN AND HER SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UNIVERSE . . . 252
Meaning of womanhood - Instinct for pairing and matchmaking - Man,
and matchmaking - High valuation of coitus - Individual sexual
Impulse, a special case - Womanhood as pairing or universal
sexuality - Organic falseness of woman - Hysteria - Difference
between man and beast, woman and man - The higher and lower life -
Birth and death - Freedom and happiness - Happiness and man -
Happiness and woman - Woman and the problem of existence -
Non-existence of woman - Male and female friendship - Pairing
identical with womanhood - Why women must be regarded as human -
Contrast between subject - Object, matter, form, man, woman -
Meaning of henids - Formation of woman by man - Significance of
woman in the universe - Man as something, woman as nothing -
Psychological problem of the fear of woman - Womanhood and crime -
Creation of woman by man's crime - Woman as his own sexuality
accepted by man - Woman as the guilt of man - What man's love of
woman is, in its deepest significance {xxii}
Differences amongst men - Intermediate forms and racial
anthropology - Comparison of Judaism and femaleness - Judaism as an
idea - Antisemitism - Richard Wagner - Similarities between Jews
and women - Judaism in science - The Jew not a monad - The Jew and
the Englishman - Nature of humour - Humour and satire - The Jewess
- Deepest significance of Judaism - Want of faith - The Jew not
non-mystical, yet impious - Want of earnestness, and pride - The
Jew as opposed to the hero - Judaism and Christianity - Origin of
Christianity - Problem of the founders of religion - Christ as the
conqueror of the Judaism in Himself - The founders of religions as
the greatest of men - Conquest of inherent Judaism necessary for
all founders of religion - Judaism and the present time - Judaism,
femaleness, culture and humanity.
CHAPTER XIV
WOMAN AND MANKIND . . . 331
The idea of humanity, and woman as the match-maker - Goethe-worship
- Womanising of man - Virginity and purity - Male origin of these
ideas - Failure of woman to understand the erotic - Woman's
relation to sexuality - Coitus and love - Woman as the enemy of her
own emancipation - Asceticism immoral - Sexual impulse as a want of
respect - Problem of the Jew - Problem of the woman - Problem of
slavery - Moral relation to women - Man as the Opponent of
emancipation - Ethical postulates - Two possibilities - The problem
of women as the problem of humanity - Subjection of women -
Persistence or disappearance of the human race - True ground of the
immorality of the sexual impulse - Earthly paternity - Inclusion of
women in the conception of humanity - The mother and the education
of the human race - Last questions.
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