See the link below for a fascinating read:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~davidquinn/sexcharh.html
It describes male/female gender differences. Weininger says that female consciousness is inherently different from male, because females think in terms of "henids" - vague half-formed impressions that are inseparable from sensations. Women lack a true ego, which Weininger describes as the male's intellectual orientation towards what he considers "The Good." Women are never truly alone, they conceive of themselves only in terms of other people.
This relates to what Agrippa posted regarding schizothymy and zyklothymy. Schizothymy would be to Weininger a male attribute: a split whereby experience/sensation is formed into abstract concepts in the male mind.
I think there is neurological evidence for this kind of thing. The "split" is the corpus callosum - which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. Women have a much stronger one than men. Their minds are more integrated. Their modes of thinking are therefore less differentiated, structurally.
Weininger mentions that maleness and femaleness are qualities possessed in varying degrees by people of both genders. He discusses this type of thing at length.
Weininger interprets this gender difference from the perspective that women are inferior. I consider women to be the backbone or foundation of the human species - without them Man cannot exist. But I also think that humanity in the sense of Homo Sapiens sapiens, achieves this essential quality most in men.
This also relates to Nietzsche's idea of Dionysian and Apollonian. The Dionysian has no ego - it is pure experience, appreciation of life in all its qualities, including destruction. The Apollonian postulates beautiful forms, tries to preserve them against decay and destruction - uses logic, reason, art, etc. Note the correspondence with what Weininger calls Feminine and Masculine, and what Kretschmer called Zyklothym and Schizothym.
I also know that the Nazis wrote about this. They considered Aryans to be Apollonian, and considered the Dionysian elements in Classical culture to be degenerate elements from the darker races of the East. Wilhelm Reich quoted some Nazi theoreticians in one of his books - possibly "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" - but I haven't seen this in years and don't have a copy I can refer to.
Anyway, see this very interesting link.
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