There is left to consider the self-respect which is often described as being so highly developed in the hysterical. That it is only man’s self-respect which has been so thoroughly forced into woman, is clear from its nature and the way it shows itself, as Vogt, who extended and verified experiments first made by Freud, discovered from self-respect under hypnotism. The extraneous masculine will creates by its influence a “self-respecting” subject in the hypnotised woman by inducing a limitation of the field of the unhypnotised state. Apart from suggestion, in the ordinary life of the hysterical it is only the man with whom they are “impregnated” who is respected in them. Any knowledge of human nature which women have comes from their absorption of the right sort of man. In the paroxysms of hysteria this artificial self-respect disappears with the revolt of oppressed nature. This is quite parallel to the clairvoyance of hysterical mediums, which is undoubted, but has as little to do with “occult” spiritism as the ordinary hypnotic phenomena. Just as Vogt’s patients made strenuous efforts to observe themselves carefully under the powerful will of the suggestor, the clairvoyante, under the influence of the dominating voice of the man who is imposing his will on her, is capable of telepathic performances, and at his command can, blindfolded, read communications held by people unknown to her at a great distance away; this I saw happen at München under circumstances which precluded any chance of fraud. In woman there are not strong passions opposed to the desire for the good and true as is the case with man. The masculine will has more power over woman than over the man himself; it can realise something in women which, in his own case, has to encounter too many obstacles. He himself has to battle with an anti-moral and anti-logical opposition in himself. The masculine will can obtain such power over woman’s mind that he makes her, in a sense, clairvoyant, and breaks down her limitations of mentality. Thus it comes about that woman is more telepathic than man, can appear more innocent, and can accomplish more as a “seer,” and it is only when she becomes a medium, _i.e._, the object, that she realises in herself most easily and surely the masculine will for the good and true. Wala can be made to understand, but not until Dotan subdues her. She meets him half-way, for her one desire is to be conquered. The subject of hysteria, so far as the purposes of this book are concerned, is now exhausted. The women who are uniformly quoted as proofs of female morality are always of the hysterical type, and it is the very observance of morality, in doing things according to the moral law as if this moral law were a law of their personality instead of being only an acquired habit, that the unreality, the immorality of this morality is shown.