A survey of the woman problem / from the German of Rosa Mayreder, by Herman Scheffauer.

  • Mayreder, Rosa, 1858-1938.
Date:
1913
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Credit: A survey of the woman problem / from the German of Rosa Mayreder, by Herman Scheffauer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tue problem of sex psychology, and in particular of feminine psychology, centres in the question—Is woman condemned by. her sex to a definitely circum- scribed mentality or is there the same possibility of unlimited individual modifications in the feminine nature as ın the masculine? | We get little light from theoretical researches as to how far mental sex differences affect the nature of various individuals. We merely learn that as great a variability exists among women as among men, and hence that within their physiological limits there is plenty of scope for the play of individuality. Decisive results cannot be expected, because those researches are carried out in a domain where the fundamental con- ceptions are still indefinite and dubious. Psychology has come off very badly in the struggle between the spiritualistic and materialistic views, between the dualistic and monistic conceptions of the world, so characteristic of the intellectual life of the present day. When we have no certainty as to what is meant by Soul, Spirit, Reason, Intelligence or even Consciousness, when the most divergent views are taken of the relation between the soul and the body, how can any trustworthy data be obtained with regard to the sexual differentiation of the human “ psyche”? B