Characterology and the belief in the “I” -- Awakening of the ego -- Jean Paul, Novalis, Schelling -- The awakening of the ego and the view of the world -- Self-consciousness and arrogance -- The view of the genius to be more highly valued than that of other men -- Final statements as to the idea of genius -- The personality of the genius as the perfectly-conscious microcosm -- The naturally-synthetic activity of genius -- Significant and symbolical -- Definition of the genius in relation to ordinary men -- Universality as freedom -- Morality or immorality of genius? -- Duties towards self and others -- What duty to another is -- Criticism of moral sympathy and social ethics -- Understanding of other men as the one requirement of morality and knowledge -- I and thou -- Individualism and universalism -- Morality only in monads -- The man of greatest genius as the most moral man -- Why man is ζωον πολιτικον -- Consciousness and morality -- The great criminal -- Genius as duty and submission -- Genius and crime -- Genius and insanity -- Man as his own creator CHAPTER IX MALE AND FEMALE PSYCHOLOGY 186 Soullessness of woman -- History of this knowledge -- Woman devoid of genius -- No masculine women in the true sense -- The unconnectedness of woman’s nature due to her want of an ego -- Revision of the henid-theory -- Female “thought” -- Idea and object -- Freedom of the object -- Idea and judgment -- Nature of judgment -- Woman and truth as a criterion of thought -- Woman and logic -- Woman non-moral, not immoral -- Woman and solitude -- Womanly sympathy and modesty -- The ego of women -- Female vanity -- Lack of true self-appreciation -- Memory for compliments -- Introspection and repentance -- Justice and jealousy -- Name and individuality -- Radical difference between male and female mental life -- Psychology with and without soul -- Is psychology a science? -- Soul and psychology -- Problem of the influence of the psychical sexual characters of the male or the female CHAPTER X MOTHERHOOD AND PROSTITUTION 214 Special characterology of woman -- Mother and prostitute -- Relation of two types to the child -- Woman polygamous -- Analogies between motherhood and sexuality -- Motherhood and the race -- Maternal love ethically indifferent -- The prostitute careless of the race -- The prostitute, the criminal and the conqueror -- Emperor and prostitute -- Motive of the prostitute -- Coitus an end in itself -- Coquetry -- The sensations of the woman in coitus in relation to the rest of her life -- The prostitute as the enemy -- The friend of life and its enemy -- No prostitution amongst animals -- Its origin a mystery CHAPTER XI EROTICS AND ÆSTHETICS 236