§ 121
As is repeatedly stated in this book, there are other types of reaction on the woman’s part that are unconscious attempts to test his control, and continually used by her. Unconsciously she gains her deepest satisfaction, one that permeates every thought and action of hers until the next subsequent love episode, from her inability to make her husband lose control of himself.
Fundamentally this is the main cause of woman’s mystery to ordinary man. She is continually springing surprises on him to throw him off his rigid course of action. Continually she is deeply disappointed if she succeeds in doing this. Could anything seem more perverse and contradictory? Is anything really simpler and more straightforward than man’s imperative necessity to pursue his own course quite uninfluenced by her unconsciously motivated actions?
She will beseech him to hurry through the episode, not knowing herself, sometimes, that it is the last thing she really wants or needs. An allegory will serve as an illustration.