No More Learning

I have been thrilled by the countless grandiose beauties of the
music and the performance of every single artist. In the first and
third acts there are long, wonderful passages. I have the feeling of
being a cheat to be part of a modern audience, sitting in a comfort-
able seat and letting others play for me, when the only thing one
should do is kneel down. . . . I go to bed, but for me that does
not mean to sleep. . . .
Your Father
CONDEMNATION
The artist always loves himself; the philosopher hates himself.
A glorious love is created in the artist by the least sign of love and
respect, while the philosopher as such is never loved. But when one
is misjudged and still loved, then one becomes hard, hard until
one is compassionate with oneself! All this self-examination is a
phenomenon typical of the self-hater.
That is the worst: not being able to love when one is loved and
knows one is loved, with hatred toward that bitter feeling of a de-
sire to love deep down in the heart. This petrifaction, this barren-
ness! An olive tree on the hardest granite! My soul cannot free
itself and enter into that of another who loves me!
The terrible existence of the Ego! It is true: an artist is congratu-
lated on his birthday, but a philosopher is condoled. The man who
fears to hear his name--how can he be happy in his existence?
If you say: "I love you"--then I have the thought: How little
you know me! Do you love me? Does anybody love me?
A philosopher: A house where the shutters are forever closed.
The sun may shine upon the house and perhaps heat it, but the
house does not open. Angry, sullen, bitter, it refuses the light. What
does it look like in the house? A wild, desperate activity, a slow,
terrifying realization in the dark, an eternal clearing out of things--
inside! Do not ask how it looks inside the house--but the light
shines on, and, amazed, it knocks on the door over and over again.
Yet the windows close ever tighter from within.
Orro Weiningeb
April 3, 1902
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Aberrant mentality in members of
Weininger family, 25
Abnormal and normal mind, problem
of distinguishing between, 152, 164
Abraham, Karl, 165
Aesthetic disguise, 191
Alexander the Great, 119
Alliteration, 173
Ambivalence, 21-22, 85, 175, 181,
187
Ambulatory schizophrenia, 192
Anal-eroticism, 175
Anal-sadistic traits, 17;
Animals, W's writings about, 169,
182; see also Dog
Anticipations preceding scientific con-
cepts, 112
Antimetaphysicist, W. an extreme, 4;
Antinomic traits, 79
Anti-Semitism, growth of, and political
influence, 28, 34 f. ; Hitler's hostil-
ity, 29; directed against Freud, 34;
Leopold Weininger's, 57; W's anti-
Semitic views, 57, 120 f. , 122, 132,
183 f. ; why he sought to deny Ju-
daism, 184; Unconscious root of,
184
Aphorisms, 69, 80, 81, 129, 160, 169,
174, 179, 182, 183 ff.
Appel, Wilhelm von, 121; quoted, 163
Archaic thinking, 169
Ascetic, defined, 129
Asceticism, 128 ff. , 177
Austria, political and economic condi-
tions, 27 ff.
Authors, 29, 31 f.
Autism of schizoid person, 257*
Autistic attitude, 190
Autoeroticism as root of narcissism,
Avenarius, Richard, 46, 112, 114
Beethoven, 142, 150; house where he
had died: W's suicide in, 4, 145 f. ,
157; W's love for music of, 51, 52;
mental-disease tendency, 193n
Benedict, contributor to Neue Freie
Press, 29
Berthold, A. , 43*1
Billroth, Theodore, 30
Biro, Paul, 95; cited, 58; quoted, 174
Bisexuality, concept of, 43, 110; effect
upon W. , 44; see also Sex
Blau, Karolina (Mrs. Solomon Wein-
inger), 6
Bloch, Ivan, 4R
Bluher, Hans, 83
Bodily structure, relation to mental
make-up, 162
Bonheur, Rosa, Strindberg on, 149
Brand (Ibsen), 99
Braumiiller, publisher of Sex and
Character, 124
Breuer, F. , 33
Bronte, Emily, 66; quoted, 68
Bumke, quoted, 15;
"Butterfly, The" (W. ), text, 63
Caesar, 119
Castration, feelings of, 178; deepest
unconscious root of anti-Semit1sm,
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Index
"Condemnation," see "Verdamnis"
Conference of Psychology, 19, 39
Consciousness, synonymous decency,
according to W. , 171
Cours de philosophic' positive
(Comte), 193d
Crime, symbols of, 166, 169, 170, 172
. Criminalistic, impulses, roots in re-
pressed sadistic tendencies, 177
Criminal traits, 129, 144, 160, 173,
189
Cruelty, 65, 176, 177, 189; see also
Sadism
Danube River, 26
Darwin, Charles, 3;, 112
Death, and the barking dog, W's ex-
perience of, 88 f. , 93, 96, 101, 172;
fear of death, 81, 88, 98, 187
Deiristic attitude, 190
Dementia, permanent: turn of hyster-
ical patient to, 154
Dichtung und Wahrheit (Goethe),
185
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 114
Disgust, originates in the sublimation
of homosexual components, 177
Doctors of Vienna, 30
Dog, barking, and death: W's experi-
ences of, 88 f. , 93, 96, 101, 172
Dostoyevsky, Fiodor, 32
Duel fought by W. , 18
Economic conditions, Austria, 29
Electors, classes, 28
Elektra (Strauss and Hoffmannsthal),
31
Eliot, George, 111
Emperor and Galilean (Ibsen), 142
Empirical science, attitudes toward, 4
Endocrine disturbances, theory con-
cerning, 1320
Engels, Friedrich, 51
Epilepsy, 160
Eros and Psyche, original title of Sex
and Character, 45, 158n
Eroticism distinguished from sexual-
ity, 119
Erweckung, Die (Ewald), 870; see
also Ewald, Oskar
Ethical-philosophical preoccupation of
W. , 55 ff. , 77 ff. , 86, 100
Ethics, defined by W. , 80; bases of:
connection with logic, 117
Etienne, contributor to Neue Freie
Presse, 29
Ewald, Oskar, pseudonym of Oskar
Friedlander, 40, 29, 44, 94, 14;;
quoted, 49, 56, 87, 123, 135, 141,
158; Die Erweckung, Sjn; letter
from, text, 203
Experience as foundation of knowl-
edge, 45 f. ; a steppingstone for W's
research work, 53
Fackel, Die, 122, 148, 153
Faderen (Strindberg), 122
Fall Otto Weininger, Der . . .
(Probst), 24,95; excerpts, 126,155,
161
? ? "Fall Otto Weininger, Der" (Stekel),
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Frey, Adelheid (Adele), 7; see Wein-
inger, Adelheid
Frey, Armand, 7
Frey, Josef, 7
Friedlander, Oskar, see Ewald, Oskar,
pseud.
Froken Julie (Strindberg), 122
Future, nature of the struggle in, 121
Gemeinniitzige Forschung, Die . , .
(Swoboda), 430
Genital glands, 106; effect on mental
development of inadequately devel-
oped, 154
Gerber, Arthur, 71, 125, 134, 152,
181; ed. W's Taschenbuch und
Briefe an einem Freund, 4, 90, 94,
197,199; gave manuscript to Ewald,
4*1; quoted, 38, 40, 49, 144; W's
letters to, with excerpts, 59, 60, 66,
69, 71, 74, 88, 89, 123, 124, 127,
137, 141, 142, 174; and analysis of,
72; family's demand that they break
off relations, 76; story of the crucial
passage in W's life, November,
1902, 90 ff. , 102; reasons why ac-
count may have been inaccurate, 94;
correspondence with Strindberg, 94,
149 ff. ; extent of his awareness of
W's mental condition, 95, 144
Germans, see Nazis
Gersthof, suburb of Vienna, 20; W.
has lodgings in, 91
Geschichte der Philosophic (Tchweg-
ler), 60
"Geschlechtseigentiimlichkeiten"
(Berthold), 430
Geschlecht und Character (W. ), see
Sex and Character
Geschlecht und Entarung (Mobiiis),
x39
"Geschlecht und Unbescheidenheit"
(Mobius), 137, 138
GUdet pa Solhaug (Ibsen), 176
Gjellerup, quoted, 125
Glaubiger, quoted by W. , 122
God, 143, 167, 183, 185, 187
Goethe, 88, 142, 157, 185; quoted,
117
Goldsmith's art: Leopold Weininger
a master of, 8
Graphology, 115
Grieg, Edvard H. , 52
"Grosses Buch von einem grossen
Menschen, Ein" (Appel), 121
Gruhle, Hans, 191
Griinwald, Elonore Magdalene (Mrs.
Josef Frey), 7
Guilt feelings: causes, 182, 183
Hallucinations, 101; imperative, 181
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 143
Hamsun, Knut, 53, 71, 74; false news
of his suicide: effect upon W. , 91,
96; letters from, texts, 212 f.
Happiness, W's vain search for, 60 ff. ,
76; his awareness of its lack, 68,
136 I. ; why possible for women, not
for men, 136
Hart, B. , 1440
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Index
Ibsen, Henrik, 36, 09, 132, 142; W*s
admiration for, 53; his essay on, ;q,
65, 79 (excerpt, 176); quoted, 7411,
80, 99n; as a masochist and a sadist,
176
Id, 190
"Idolatry-Gynolatry . . . " (Strind-
berg),148
Impotence, feelings of, 178, 184
Individualistic intellectualism, 179
Insanity, W's interest in, and ideas
about, 171, 174, 182
Inspiration, 191
Institute for 'Experimental' Psychol-
ogy. 74 , ,
Intellectual capacity and talent of the
sexes compared, 116 f.
Introspection, as a research method in
psychology, 19, 39 f. ; W's resort to,
as weapon against ideas which op-
pressed him, 64 f. , 77, 86, 97, 171
Introversion, 165
Inversion, sexual, 108, 109
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde of
Vienna, 12, 200
James, William, 114
Jaspers, Karl, 19on, 19m; quoted, 156
Jesus Christ, see Christ
Jewish Congregation in Vienna, 57,
58,79
Jewish xeligion, deserted by Leopold
Weininger, 1on, 57; by two daugh-
ters, 12, 57; by Otto, 57 f. , 60
Jews, W's ancestry, 6, 7; position in
Austria, 28, 29, 34 f. ; live in family,
not as individuals, 83, 120; vicious
hatred in W's aphorisms concern-
ing, 184; see also Anti-Semitism
Jodl, Friedrich, 55; letter to, 24, 78,
15811; recommendation of Sex and
Character to publisher, 163
Jodl, Margaret, 163n
Joire, Paul M. J. , 39
K. , Miss, 125, 132
Kant, Immanuel, 45, 6on, 70, 78, 79,
86, 119, 168; phenomenon of white
cloud during burial of, 186
Kierkegaard, Soren, 36, 79ft, qqn
Kikiriki, cartoon-paper, 29
Klages, L. , 156
Klaren, Georg, Otto Weininger . . . .
95
Kleist, Heinrich von, 154
Knowledge, search for the conditions
of, 45 f.
Koht, Halvdan, qgn
Kraepelin, Emil, 109, 130
Kraus, Julius, 54; attack upon W. , 44
Kretschmer, Ernst, 1320, 162n
Kris, Ernst, igzn
Kritik der reinen Erfahrung (A vena-
rius), 46
Languages, parents' talent for, 9, 10;
W's, 15; his study of Norwegian, 71,
"Law of Sexual Attraction, 47,
107 ff. , 130
Letters about W. and his family,
? ? texts, 41 f. , 94, 122, 149 ff. , 201-1;
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221
Medical leaders and students, 30
Memory, 117
Men, general concepts of male and fe-
male: appeal to the arbitration of
anatomy, 104 ff. ; element of prosti-
tution in great leaders, 119; why
happiness not possible for, 136; see
also Sex
Menschliche Weltbegriff, Der, (Ave-
narius), 470
Mental disease, Freud's approach to
study and treatment of, 33
Mental exploration: introspection
(q. v. ) as method, 19, 39 f.
Mental process distinguished from de-
velopment of personality, 192
Messianic nature, W's belief in own,
97
"Metaphysics (W. ), 78
Meyer, Miss, W's interest in, 124, 127
Mnemonic disturbance, 101
Mobiiis, P. J. , accusations leveled at
W. in review of his book, 137; re-
sulting controversy, 138-40; quoted,
155, 194
Modern times, W. calls Jewish and
anarchistic, 121
Moon, eclipse, 185, 186n
Moral hypertrophy, 100/1
Moral philosophy and struggle of W. ,
57, 59, 77 ff. , 86, 100
Morphology and characterology, par-
allel between, 110
Mother, type described by Weininger,
11; his own mother the psycholog-
ical basis, 11, 13; his mother and
prostitute types, 72, 73, 89, 118; see
also Women
Mozart, 15, 52
Murder, W's impulses to, 65, 92, 93,
101, 154, 189; why love related to,
17S
Music, Leopold Weininger's love for,
and understanding of, 8, 15; W's,
15; his development influenced by
his appreciation, 52, 72; composers
he most loved, 52
Musset, Alfred de, 111
Napoleon I, 119
Narcissism, sexual life the root of, 25n
Narcissistic regression common to both
schizophrenia and manic-depressive
malady, 162
Nationalities in Austria, 27
Natural sciences, vital force in creating
new viewpoint, 35
Nazis, influence in Austria, 28, 29; in-
terpretation of Nietzsche, 36; use of
W's attacks upon Jews, 122
Neue Freie Presse, 29
Neurosis, difference between psychosis
and, 165
"New . . . Methods in the Study of
Psychology (Joire), 39
Newspapers, 29; reviews of Sex and
Character, 121
Nietzsche, Friedrich W. , 78, 127;
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Periodicals, 29; reviews of Sex and
Character, 121
Personality, dependence of action
upon whole, 36; development of,
distinguished from mental process,
192
Perverts, sexual, 108 f. , 1ll, 132a,
Pfeffer, Wilhelm, 108
Phallic cult, 133
Philosophers, masculine and feminine,
Philosophy, positivism a trend within,
35; influence of Nietzsche: a new
moral evaluation, 36; contradictions
created, 37; psychology impotent
without, 114
Physiognomy, 110
Pikante Blatter, 30
Plato, 86, 131, 133
Poems by W. , 129; texts, 21, 23, 62 f. ,
84
Poets, 31, 32
Political conditions, 27
Positivism, 35, 45
Press, see Newspapers
"Problem of Talent, The" (W. ).
? 8
Probst, Ferdinand, 186; Der Fall Otto
Weininger . . . , 24,95, (excerpts,
126, 155, 161)
Prostitute and mother types of women,
72, 89, 118; see also Women
Prostitution, element of, in great
leaders, 119
Protagoras, 4;
Protestant church, entered by W. , 58,
60, 79, 184
Psychic activity, evidence of primary
insufficiency of, 14m
Psychoanalysis, Vienna the cradle of,
32; the work of Freud, 33 f.
Psychologists, empirical, 114
Psychology, introspection (fl. v. ) as a
research method in, 19, 39 f. ; impo-
tent without philosophy: problems
that should, and should not, be
dealt with, 114
Psychology, Conference of, 19, 39
Psychopath, term, 160
Psychosexual hermaphroditism, 108
Psychosexual traits common to hysteria
and schizophrenia, 160
Psychosis, 170, 181; difference be-
tween psychosis and, 165
Psychotherapy, W's belief in, and
definition of, 97, 98
Psychotic phenomenon, 96, 101
Piirkersdorf, near Vienna, 47
Rappaport, M. , 143; Vber die letzten
Dinge ed. and brought out by, 4,
122, 184; quoted, 24, 52, 62, 64, 65,
94, 135, 153, 168, 169, 172, 183;
became close friend of W. , 56;
cited, 77, 87; reverence shown in
writing about W's funeral, 185
Rationalization, process of, 87, 144
Reality, testing of, throughout Eu-
rope, 26; withdrawal from, 16;
? ? Regression of instinctual drive, 190
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223
181; sim1larities and differences be-
tween hysteria and, 159 f. ; between
manic-depressive psychosis and,
161 f. ; characteristics of ordinary,
190; ambulatory, 192; specific sort
of change in thinking, feeling, or
behavior, 193
Schneider, quoted, 82
Schnitzler, Arthur, 31, 32
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 33, 35, 37, 47,
78, 107; quoted, 186
Science, modern concepts foreshad-
owed by earlier thinkers, 112
"Science and Culture" (W. ), 89
Sciences, natural: vital force in creat-
ing new viewpoint, 35
Scientific research, W's dissatisfaction
with, 56
Self-abasement, 61, 93
Self-esteem, 14, 17, 24, 48, 56, 165,
187
Self-hatred, 65, 177
Sensations, study of, 114
Sex, sexual life as root of narcissism,
2571; Freud's theories re repression,
34; W's first knowledge of the con-
cept of bisexuality, 43, 110; its ef-
fect upon him, 44; his "law of sexual
attraction," 47, 107 ff. , 130; ques-
tion of sexual differences became his
goal, 48; complex part sexuality
played in his great work, 81 f. ; early
sexual trauma a reason for hysteria,
830; general concepts of male and
female: anatomy, 104; presence of
sexual properties: principle of sexual
transition, 105; four degrees of sex-
ual characteristics, 106; homosexual-
ity, 108 f. , 110, 130-32; theoretical
analysis of the male and female con-
tent in the individual, 110 ff.
; sexual
oscillations, 110; sexual types, 112-
21; distinction between male and
female in the process of clarification,
113; love, eroticism, sexuality, 119;
importance of being a man or a
woman, 120; sexuality in the Jew,
120; men with inadequately devel-
oped organs, 154; origin of hysteria
and schizophrenia in repressed sex-
ual feelings, 159; sexualizing of ex-
ternal world, 173; sadistic and maso-
chistic tendencies, 174 ff. ; see also
Men; Sexual; Women
Sex and Character (W's book), a pro-
digious philosophical work, 3; trans-
lat1ons, 3n, 122, 125; number of
printings, 4; its reception: conflict-
ing opinions: reviews, 4, 55, 121 f. ,
126n,137-40,141,198; Strindberg's
approval, 4,122,148; author's cla1m
of originality, 22; his thesis became
first part of, 38, 104; followed his
interest in theory of bisexuality, 45;
originally called Eros and Psyche,
45, 158n; became part of W's self,
involving his own life, 48, 159; ef-
? ? fort to find sponsor to recommend it
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Sex and Character (continued)
ideas despite the excellent observa-
tions in it, 173; W's concept of, and
style, changed as result of psychosis
of November 1902, 191; tee alto
under the main tub-entriet above,
e. g. , Characterology; Sex; Women,
etc.
Sex and Character: a Psychobiologkal
Study (W's thesis), became first
part of the book, 38, 104; intensive
work on: style, 47; manuscript sub-
mitted to, and disapproved by,
Freud, 54 f. ; its date: W. received
doctor's degree for, 58
Sexual abstinence, 127
Sexual inversion, 108 f.
Sexual perverts, 108 f. , lll, 13m, 134
Sexual transference, 164
Shakespeare, 142 f.
Sheldon, W. H. , 162n
"Shivering" (W. ), text, 21, 23
"Sieh mich gebeugt" (W. ), 129
Sittlichkeitsmetaphysik Otto Weinin-
ger, Die (Biro), 58, 95
Skoda, Joseph, 30
Social adaptation, 164
Society for the Social Sciences, 51, 62,
64
Spinoza, Baruch, 78
Spire, Andr6, 60
Stadtpark, Vienna, statues in, 27
Steenstrup, Johannes J. Smith, 105
Stekel, Wilhelm, 121; quoted, 122,
155, 161, 186, 194
Storcn, A. , 14m
Strauss, Johann, 27, 30
Strauss, Richard, 31
Strindberg, Johan August, 49, 53, 165,
178, 190; approval of W's book, 4,
122, 148; letters from 94 (texts,
122, 1495. ); article by, excerpt,
148 f. ; agreement with W's opinion
of women, 148 f. ; their similar per-
sonality and psychological alikeness,
148, 193
Studies of Hysteria (Freud and
Breuer), 33
Stumpfl, Friedrich, 156
Superego, 129,189
Suttner, Bertha, 149
Swift, Jonathan, 154
Swoboda, Hermann, 47, 79, 86, 154,
188; talk with Freud repeated to
W. , 43, 44, 54; W's growing inti-
macy with, 47, 77; quoted, 54, 61,
64, 82, 86, 98, 126, 153; Otto
Weiningers Tod, 61n, 198
Symbolism, theory of, 166-72, 179
Syracuse, 142
Tag, Der, "Memoir of Leopold Wein-
inger," 7
Talent, theory of, 158, 1C9
Taschenbuch und Briefe an einetn
Freund (W. ), publication through,
and ed. by, Arthur Gerber, 4, 94,
197; account of W's suicide plan,
? ? excerpt, 90 ff. ; W's obvious refer-
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28, 34 f. ; economic conditions, 29;
press, periodicals, 29; individuality
of the people: great doctors: foreign
students, 30; literary world, 31 f. ;
the cradle of psychoanalysis: Freud
and other scholars, 32-34; social con-
flicts and resulting unrest and dis-
order, 35-37; Nietzsche: new moral
evaluation in thought of philoso-
phers, 36
Vienna, University of, 17, 27; W's stu-
dent days, 38 f. , 45 ff. ; empiric criti-
cism predominant at, 45
Virility, W. 's adoration of, 133
Vogt, Ragnar, quoted, 126n
Voting rights, 28
Votivkirche, Vienna, 27, 50
Wage, Die, 121, 161
Wagner, Richard, 36, 71, 72; effect of
his music upon Leopold Weininger,
8; upon Otto, 15, 52
Wassermann, Jakob, 32
Weber, Max, 33
Weininger family, sources of material
on, 6n, 1on, 200-215 family
conflict and its influence, 13, 15 f. ,
17, 83; members with aberrant men-
tality: probable schizoid traits, 25;
non-Jewish home, 57; culture that of
assimilated Jews, 83; no insanity in,
154; traces of sadism, 175
Weininger, Adelheid (Mrs. Leopold),
parents: wedding: children, 7; gift
for languages: beauty: a typical do-
mestic woman, 10; psychological
basis for type "mother" in W's
book? 11, 13; difficult married life,
13, 16, 83; W's denial of his mother
religion also directed against, 132,
184
Weininger, Franz, 7
Weininger, Friedrich, 6
Weininger, Helene, 7
Weininger, {Caroline, 7, 12, 25
Weininger, Leopold, 90; rigid moral
attitude, 6, 15; Lucka's memoir of,
7; personality, 7, 9 f. , 25, 146; wed-
ding: children, 7; artistic sense: skill
as goldsmith, 8; love for, and under-
standing of, music, 8,15; ambiguity,
9; his two mental periods, 87, 99;
1902 symptoms of schizophrenic
disease, 99 ff. ; his escape from it,
103; explanations of the suicide of-
fered by father and others, 186;
rationalization, 87, 144; talent for
languages: appearance, 9; marriage
unhappy, 9, 13; demands upon wife
and children, 9, 13, 19; death, 10;
left Jewish religion, 1on, 57; rela-
tions with and influence upon, son,
12, 13, 14 ff. , 19, 83, 133, 170; fail-
ure to realize son's condition, 61,
146; statements about his son, 126,
141, 143, 145, 186; son's suicide a
severe blow to, 146; his reactions,
146-48; notice to newspapers: in-
? ? scription for tomb, 147; Otto's part-
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Weininger, Otto (Continued)
47, 56; his book became part of
himself, involving his own life, 48;
appearance, 49 f. , 55, 125, 162; so-
cial conduct: manners, 50 f. ; effort
to find sponsor to recommend thesis
to publisher, 53, 55; essay on hys-
teria, 54; became close friend of
Rappaport (</. v. ), 56; left Jewish re-
ligion to become a Christian, 57 f. ,
59, 60, 79, 184; self-support as pri-
vate tutor, 57; doctor's degree: its
title: when received, 58; essay on
Ibsen, 59, 65, 79, 176; aphorisms,
69, 80, 81, 129, 160, 169, 174, 179,
182, 183; declined father's money
for studies, 69, accepted it for travel,
69, 73; travel experiences: reactions
to them, 70-76, 125, 141-43; friend-
ship with Gerber (<7-V. ), 76; books
and articles about the man and his
works, 122; had very few personal,
carefully selected, friends, 131; en-
trusted last manuscript to Rappa-
port for publication, 135; despera-
tion made worse by reception given
his book, 137, 141; attacks by
Mobius, 137; resulting controversy,
138-40; at time of death, slight at-
tention paid to his work or personal-
ity, 139; visits with his family, 141,
144; suicide in death house of Bee-
thoven: effect upon his father,
145 f. ; newspaper notices of death:
inscription on tomb, 147; mourned
by only a small circle, 148; how
Strindberg noted his passing: simi-
larities in their personalities and
opinions, 148-51, 193; the parting
from his father, 181; much admired
by friends: their attitude uncritical,
185; eclipse of moon during funeral,
185; friends' reverent and uncritical
attitude about his suicide, 186; see
also entries under Sex and Charac-
ter; Taschenbuch und Briefe . . . ;
Vber die letzten Dinge mentality, personality, philoso-
phy: why he became famous and
a subject of controversy, 3; vio-
lent and complex nature reflected
in his books, 4; long mental ex-
peditions on which forced by his
nature, 5; steps necessary to the
understanding of his manifold
personality, 6; egocentricity, 12,
56, 85, 190; narcissism, 12, 17 f. ,
22, 77, 100, 101, 127, 156,
165, 170, 186, 190; urge toward
self-display: craving for attention,
applause, 12, 22, 58, 155 ff. ; self-
esteem and sense of superiority:
their causes and manifestations,
14, 17, 24, 56, 165, 187; convic-
tion of his own greatness, 43,
135, 138, 140, 188; revolt against
authority, 14, 17, 19, 24; mental-
ity and behavior during school
? ? years, 14 ff. , 19, 24; sexual drives
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became ametaphysical, 45; ques-
tion of sexual differences became
goal of his study, 48 (see entries
under Sex); because of mental
conflicts, dissatisfied with life as
early as 1900, 48; only superficial
interest in social or sociological
problems, 51; artistic side seen in
attitude toward music, 52, 72;
development influenced by it:
composers he most loved, 52; sen-
sitive and artistic mind: deep
concern with literature, 53; ethi-
cal and idealistic preoccupations,
55 ff. , 77 ff. , 86, 100; periods and
nature of changes in, 55 ff. , 78,
80, 87, 90, 99, 103, 127, 133,
153, 180, 192; absorption in
studies and work: overwork and
its effect, 55, 123, 127, 154; pe-
riod of his real contribution to
psychobiological research, 56;
monstrous anti-Semitism, 57,
120 f. , 122, 132, 183 f. ; self-accu-
sations, 60, 80, 93, 102; growing
unrest, stemming from vain
search for happiness and mental
peace, 60 ff. , 68, 76, 136 f. ; men-
tal condition not perceived by
father, 61; by friends, 61, 95,
144, 153, 185; the prototype of a
thinker: abstract regions his real
home, 61; sense of guilt and ac-
companying anxiety, 62, 81, 92,
100, 182 ff. ; influence upon his
thinking, 64; inability to love, 6;;
feelings of being a born criminal
and of impulse to murder, 65,
92, 101, 13;, 154, 189; self-
hatred, 65, 187; loneliness in-
grained and morbid, 69; moral
considerations tied up with pe-
culiar personality make-up, 79,
86; depression dominant in his life
and book, 79; fear and terror
and resulting morbid develop-
ment, 80 ff. ; preoccupation with
thought of suicide, 81,91 ff. , 141,
143, 144, 158; complex part sen-
suality played in his great work:
relation to his opposition to
women, 82; sexual life, 83-86;
Ego-consciousness, 85; fear a con-
stituent part of mental life, 87;
terror a phenomenon of later
days, 88, 97; suicide plan and
crucial period in November,
1902, 88, 90 ff. , 102; experience
of the barking dog and death,
88 f. , 93, 96, 101, 172; called a
good and sacred man, 92, 124;
tender-heartedness, 92; psychotic
condition, 93, 96, 101; belief in
psychotherapy, 97, 98; in own
Messianic nature, 97; social as-
ceticism, 100; visionary halluci-
nations, 101; evidence of mental
? ? derangement, 101; mood and
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nature of his schizoid make-up,
163, 170, 173 f. ; lack of capacity
for sexual and social transference,
164; withdrawal from actuality:
suppression of emotions, 16;;
symbols and ideas of symbolism,
165-72; 179; animals as symbols,
169,182 (see also Dog); religious
metaphysic, 170, 186, 187; inter-
est in crime and insanity, 171,
182; conviction of evil in self can
be understood only in light of his
personality make-up, 172, its con-
flicting impulses, 172 ff. ; sadistic
and masochistic tendencies,
174 ff. ; psychodynamics, 178;
abandonment of his two most im-
portant principles: belief in the
individual: alteration of views
about women, 179 f. ; attacks of
psychosis: effect upon personality,
181; starting point and substance
of his mental crisis, 182; identi-
fied self with feeling of Christ-
like sanctity, 184, 187; last week
of life: conflict between desire to
live and desire to die, 187; re-
pression of sexual desires, 187;
where true and accurate explana-
tion of the suicide must be found,
187 ff. ; mystic desires for purity
and atonement contended with
counter motives, 188; range of
psychological phenomena within
enveloping structure of mental
condition, 189; review of mental
i onditicn, 190-94; mental process
and development of personality
fused, 193; mental conflicts the
source of his fame: a page in the
history of human thought and
mental disease, 194
Weininger, Richard, 7, 11, 25, 59,
146, 181; infraction of criminal
code, 11
Weininger, Rosa Boschan, 43, 66,
126, 174; birth date, 7; on her par-
ents, 9, 13; her brother Richard, 11;
W's letters to, 71, 124; father's let-
ter to, text, 214; letters from, texts,
202-14 P&ssim
Weininger, Solomon, and family, 6
Wirth, George, 4
Women, W's attitude toward his
mother a probable influence in his
hostility to women, 11, 13, 16, 83;
division into mother and prostitute
types, 72, 73, 89, 118; W's opposi-
tion to, 82, 178, 184; general con-
cepts of male and female: appeal
to the arbitration of anatomy,
104 ff. ; emancipated women, 111,
121; analysis of the nature and char-
acter of, 115 ff. ; do not understand
own nature, 115; sexual drive, 11;;
psychical life without continuity:
have no feeling of identity, 116; in-
? ? tellectual capacity and talent, 116 f . ;
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