Otto Weininger & Women
nothing but sexuality; she is sexuality itself. Whereas
men possess sexual organs, 'her sexual organs possess
woman'. The female is completely preoccupied with
sexual matters, whereas the male is interested in much
else, such as war, sport, social affairs, philosophy
and science, business and politics, religion and art.
Women fall in love only with men clevere than themselves.
Thus, the essencial difference between man and woman
is that, whereas 'the male lives consciously, the female
lives unconsciously.' Woman is incapable of forming clear
judgements, so the distinction between true and false
means nothing to her. Thus women are naturally, inescapably
untruthful. Not that they are, on this account, immoral;
they do not enter the moral realm at all. Women simply
has no standard of right or wrong. And, as she knows no moral
or logical imperative, she cannot be said to have a soul,
and this means she lacks free will. From this it follows that
women have no ego, no individuality, and no character.
Ethically, women are a lost cause.
Each individual woman is a combination of the mother and
prostitute, but is predominantly one or the other. There
is no moral difference between the two: the mother's
love for her child is as unthinking and indiscriminate
as the prostitute's desire to make love to every man
she sees. Whereas the mother is obsessed with the
object of sex, the prostitute is obsessed with the act
itself. All women, whether mothers or prostitutes,
share a single characteristic - 'a characteristic
which is really and exclusively feminine'-.
Jew is a Platonic idea, a psychological type, which
is a danger for all mankind, 'but which has become
actual in the most conspicious fashion only amongst
the Jews. The Jew is 'saturated with feminity'-
the most manly Jew is more feminine than the least manly
Aryan'. The Jew has no sense of good and evil, and no
soul. He is non-philosophical and profoundly irreligious.
These are the ideas of Weininger, he himself was Jewish
and homosexual.
Dietrich Eckhart told that in all his life he had
known just one good Jew: Otto Weininger who killed
himself on the day when he realised that the Jew
lives upon the decay of peoples.
Ref: Otto Weininger Sex and Character (Heinemann, 1906)
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