CHAPTER XI

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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 æsthetics, 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