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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 — 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 |
| 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 — 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 |
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 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 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
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