Erotics and Æsthetics |
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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
The Nature of Woman and Her Significance in the Universe |
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Meaning of womanhood—Instinct for pairing or 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
