CONTENTS
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| Author’s Preface to the First German Edition | [ix] | |
| FIRST OR PREPARATORY PART SEXUAL COMPLEXITY | ||
| Introduction | [1] | |
| On the development of general conceptions — Male and female — Contradictions — Transitionalforms — 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 — Earlyanticipations | ||
| 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 sexualconditions — Brain — Excess of male births — Determination of sex — Comparative pathology | ||
| CHAPTER III | ||
| The Laws of Sexual Attraction | [26] | |
| Sexual preference — Probability of these being controlled by a law — First formula — Firstinterpretation — 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 ofthe 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 — Sexualpreferences of emancipated women — Physiognomy of emancipated women — Other celebrated women — Femaleness andemancipation — Practical rules — Genius essentially male — Movementsof women in historical times — Periodicity — Biology and the conception of history — Outlook of the woman movement— Its fundamental error | ||
| SECOND OR PRINCIPAL PART THE SEXUAL TYPES | ||
| 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 andwhat is not the object of psychology — Character and individuality — Problem of characterology and the problem of thesexes | ||
| CHAPTER II | ||
| Male and Female Sexuality | [85] | |
| The problem of a female psychology — Man as the interpreter of female psychology — Differences in thesexual 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 cessationof 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 ofunderstanding — Forgetting — Paths and organisation — Conception of “henids” — The henid as thesimplest, psychical datum — Sexual differences in the organisation of thecontents of 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 ismeant 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 — Ahigher grade of maleness — Genius always universal — The female devoid of genius or of hero-worship — Giftedness andsex | ||
| CHAPTER V | ||
| Talent and Memory | [114] | |
| Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts — Memory of experiences a sign of genius — Remarksand conclusions — Remembrance and apperception — Capacity for comparison and acquisition — Reasons for the masculinityof music, drawing and painting — Degrees of genius — Relation of genius to ordinary men — Autobiography — Fixedideas — Remembrance of personal creations — Continuous and discontinuance memory — Continuity and piety — Pastand present — Past 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 forimmortality — 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 ofvalue — Desire for immortality a special case — Desire for immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his universalmemory and the duration of his creations — Genius and history — Genius and nations — Genius and language — Men ofaction and men of science, not to be called men of genius — Philosophers, founders of religion and artists have genius | ||
| CHAPTER VI | ||
| Memory, Logic and Ethics | [142] | |
| Psychology and “psychologismus” — Value of memory — Theory of memory — Doctrines ofpractice 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 andnon-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 identityand of contraries — Their use and significance — Logical axioms as the laws of essence — Kant and Fichte — Freedomof thought and freedom of the will — Ethics — Relation to logic — The psychology of the Kantian ethics — Kant andNietzsche | ||
| 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 thegenius to be more highly valued than that of other men — Final statements as to the idea of genius — The personality of thegenius 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 — Understandingof other men as the one requirement 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 manis ζωον πολιτικον — Consciousness and morality — The greatcriminal — 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 inthe 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 — Memoryfor compliments — Introspection and repentance — Justice and jealousy — Name and individuality — Radicaldifference between male and female mental life — Psychology with and without soul — Is psychology a science? — Souland 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 ethicallyindifferent — The prostitute careless of the race — The prostitute, the criminal and the conqueror — Emperor andprostitute — Motive of the prostitute — Coitus an end in itself — Coquetry — The sensations of the woman incoitus in relation to the rest of her life — The prostitute as the enemy — The friend of life and its enemy — Noprostitution amongst animals — Its origin a mystery | ||
| CHAPTER XI | ||
| Erotics and Æsthetics | [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 æsthetics, logic and ethics— Modes of love — Projection phenomena — Beauty and morality — Nature and ethics — Natural and artisticbeauty — Sexual love as guilt — Hate, love and morality — Creation of the devil — Love and sympathy — Loveand shyness — Love and vanity — Love of woman as a means to an end — Relation between the child and love, the child andsexuality — 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 or matchmaking — Man, and matchmaking — High valuationof coitus — Individual sexual impulse, a special case — Womanhood as pairing or universal sexuality — Organic falsenessof woman — Hysteria — Difference between man and beast, woman and man — The higher and lower life — Birth anddeath — 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 beregarded as human — Contrast between subject — Object, matter, form, man, woman — Meaning of henids — Formationof woman by man — Significance of woman in the universe — Man as something, woman as nothing — Psychological problemof the fear of woman — Womanhood and crime — Creation of woman by man’s crime — Woman as his own sexualityaccepted by man — Woman as the guilt of man — What man’s love of woman is, in its deepest significance | ||
| CHAPTER XIII | ||
| Judaism | [301] | |
| Differences amongst men — Intermediate forms and racial anthropology — Comparison of Judaism andfemaleness — 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 asthe 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 — Virginityand purity — Male origin of these ideas — Failure of woman to understand the erotic — Woman’s relation tosexuality — Coitus and love — Woman as the enemy of her own emancipation — Asceticism immoral — Sexual impulse asa 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 theproblem of humanity — Subjection of women — Persistence or disappearance of the human race — True ground of theimmorality of the sexual impulse — Earthly paternity — Inclusion of women in the conception of humanity — The mother andthe education of the human race — Last questions | ||
| Index | [351] | |