Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed.

  • Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Sex & character / by Otto Weininger. Authorised translation from the 6th German ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Authok’s Preface to the First German Edition Pac^c ix FIRST OR PREPARATORY PART SEXUAL COMPLEXITY Introduction .... On the development of general conceptions—Male and female Contradictions Transitional forms—Anatomyand natural endowment—Uncertainty of anatomy CHAPTER I Males and Females .... Embryonic neutral condition — Rudiments in the adult Degrees ot “ gonochorism Principle of Intermediate forms— Male and female—Need for typical conceptions—ResumS— Early anticipations CHAPTER II Male and Female Plasmas Position of sexuality Steenstrup’s view adopted-Sexual characters Internal secretions-Idioplasm-Arrhenoplasm -Thelyplasm—Variations-Proofs from the effects of cas- tration Transplantation and transfusion-Organotherapy— Individual differences between cells—Origin of intermediate sexual conditions-Brain-Excess of male births-Determi- nation of sex—Comparative pathology