Otto Weininger

Ladislaus Lob

The first complete English translation of Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger's notorious treatise on gender, sexuality, and race.

An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

Sex and Character

Laura Marcus

Daniel Steuer

An Investigation Of Fundamental Principles

Sex And Character

In this book Dr Weininger describes the uses made of a model of short-term therapy which takes the richness and complexity of the development of psychic life into account. The creative work with a small group of children, day students in a treatment centre for difficult young children, shows a new respect for the way a gradual introduction to short periods of a new type of atmosphere of treatment can over time have a profound and positive effect on the group. Anyone beginning child analysis will be grateful indeed for this book about the result of that work.

Children's Emotions in Everyday Life

View from the Cradle

With his suicide in 1903, at the age of 23, Otto Weininger became a central figure in the mythology of fin-de-siecle Vienna. This volume of essays, published posthumously, is a sequel to his book, Sex and Character, which was banned by Nazi censors. This is its first translation into English.

On Last Things

"Sex and character" explains the characteristics of the human species. Written by Otto Weininger, the treatise focuses on issues important to its time: gender, antisemitism, cultural identity, nazism, misogyny, and biological racism. The book is controversial and readers might not agree with everything within the book, but it provides a different way of looking at these issues.

Sex & Character

Being and Not Being: Clinical Applications of the Death Instinct is the product of Dr. Weininger's decades of clinical work; he has written extensively on many aspects of child development and draws on the work of both Melanie Klein and Piaget. Richly illustrated with extensive case material, Being and Not Being is essential reading not only for those working with children of all ages, but also to all seeking a better understanding of the role of the death instinct throughout the life cycle. Unlike Freud, Dr. Weininger finds the superego in young children to be very active. He begins by discussing the early developmental origins of such emotions as anger and rage. Using an abundance of clinical material throughout, Dr. Weininger goes on to discuss the role of the internal objects, and the ways in which fantasized and real people, the internal objects and external parents, shape our relationships with people in our outer world. Dr. Weininger devotes the second section of the book to such long overlooked and ignored topics as young children's developmental concepts of death, and dying and disabled children and children who feel unwanted. He makes wonderful use of his clinical experience when he discusses a three-year-old's attempt to understand death, which he illustrates with extensive dialogue. Drawing on his broad hospital experience, he next discusses the role of parents and hospitals in giving dying children the emotional support they need and helping them to deflect the death instinct.

Clinical Applications of the Death Instinct

Being and Not Being

Taschenbuch und Briefe an einen Freund

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Taschenbuch Und Briefe An Einen Freund; Volume 5941 Of Harvard College Library Preservation Microfilm Program 3 Otto Weininger Artur Gerber E.P. Tal, 1919 Philosophy; History & Surveys; Modern; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy, German

Taschenbuch Und Briefe an Einen Freund - Primary Source Edition

On October 4, 1903, Otto Weininger died by his own hand, at the age of twenty-three and a half years. There is perhaps in all history no other instance of a man who had produced a work so mature in its scientific character, and so original in its philosophical aspect as "Sex and Character" when he was no more than twenty-one years old. We will not attempt to decide whether this was the case of a genius, who, instead of developing his intellectual powers gradually in the course of a lifetime, concentrated them in one mighty achievement, and then cast off the worn-out husk of the flesh, or of an unhappy youth, who could no longer bear the burden of his own ghastly knowledge. "Sex and Character" is undoubtedly one of those rare books that will be studied long after its own times, and whose influence will not pass away, but will penetrate deeper and deeper, compelling amazement and inviting reflection in steadily expanding circles.

Des fins ultimes

Sex şi caracter

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Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places the book in its cultural and historical context.

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