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 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