The Feminine Mystique

15.
Ibid., p. 299.
16.
Ibid., p. Ida Alexis Ross Wylie, The Little
Woman,” Harper’s, November, Chapter 5. THE SEXUAL SOLIPSISM OF
SIGMUND FREUD Clara Thompson, Psychoanalysis:
Evolution and Development, New York, pp. 131 ff:
Freud not only emphasized the biological more than the cultural, but he also developed a cultural theory of his own based on his biological theory. There were two obstacles in the way of understanding the importance of the cultural phenomena he saw and recorded. He was too deeply involved in developing his biological theories to give much thought to other aspects of the data he collected. Thus he was interested chiefly in applying to human society his theory of instincts. Starting with the assumption of a death instinct, for example, he then developed an explanation of the cultural phenomena he observed in terms of the death instinct. Since he did not have the perspective to be gained from

knowledge of comparative cultures, he could not evaluate cultural processes as such. Much which Freud believed to be biological has been shown by modern research to be a reaction to a certain type of culture and not characteristic of universal human nature Richard La Piere, The Freudian Ethic,
New York, 1959, p. 62.
3.
Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of
Sigmund Freud, New York, 1953, Vol. I, pi Ibidi., Vol. II (1955), p. 432.
5.
Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 7—14, 294; Vol. II, p Bruno Bettelheim, Love Is Not Enough:
The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed
Children, Glencoe, III, 1950, pp. 7 ff Ernest L. Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud,
New York, 1960, Letter 10, p. 27; Letter p. 71; Letter 65, p. 145.
8.
Ibid., Letter 74, p. 60; Letter 76, pp. 161 ff Jones, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 176 ff.
10.
Ibid., Vol. II, p. 422.
11.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. His descriptions of sexual activities are so matter-of-fact that many readers have found them almost dry and totally lacking in

warmth. From all I know of him, I should say that he displayed less than the average personal interest in what is often an absorbing topic. There was never any gusto or even savor in mentioning asexual topic”.
He always gave the impression of being an unusually chaste person the word
“puritanical” would not be out of place and all we know of his early development confirms this conception.
12.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. 102.
13.
Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 110 ff.
14.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. 124.
15.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. 127.
16.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. 138.
17.
Ibid., Vol. I, p. Helen Walker Puner, Freud, His Life and
His Mind, New York, 1947, p. Jones, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 121.
20.
Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 301 ff. During the years
Freud was germinating his sexual theory,
before his own heroic self-analysis freed him from a passionate dependence on a series of men, his emotions were focused on a flamboyant nose-and-throat doctor named
Fliess. This is one coincidence of history that was quite fateful for women. For Fliess had proposed, and obtained Freud’s lifelong

allegiance to, a fantastic scientific theory”
which reduced all phenomena of life and death to bisexuality expressed in mathematical terms through a periodic table based on the number 28, the female menstrual cycle. Freud looked forward to meetings with Fliess as for the satisfying of hunger and thirst He wrote him No one can replace the intercourse with a friend that a particular, perhaps feminine side of me,
demands.” Even after his own self-analysis,
Freud still expected to die on the day predicted by Fliess” periodic table, in which everything could be figured out in terms of the female number 28, or the male 23, which was derived from the end of one female menstrual period to the beginning of the next.
21.

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