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 in psychic life -- No disparagement of famous men -- Understanding and noticing -- Universal consciousness of genius -- Greatest distance from the henid stage -- A higher grade of maleness -- Genius always universal -- The female devoid of genius or of hero-worship -- Giftedness and sex CHAPTER V TALENT AND MEMORY 114