How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

mother or sweetheart) so many prostitutes, and, if he should happen to encounter a homosexual, believes it his duty to knock the poor fellow down and thus demonstrate his spurious masculinity.» “ I must be the centre of attraction at all costs ! ” is the training formula of the spoiled child who believes that her right is the brilliant spotlight which she monopolized as a child. The training formula of the dependent spoiled child differs from the arrogant motto stated above. His formula is “ I must at all costs be supported by someone in power ” ora related formula : “ I am so weak that you must do everything for me ! ” The child who has suffered a great deal of sickness and thus tasted the joys and security of invalidism, assumes a vital training formula which might read : “It is better to be sick and secure than well and imperilled.” The neurotic who has been intimidated by life assumes the formula : “I must avoid all tests of my actual worth ! ” Another favourite neurotic formula which is very common in these days of almost universal neurosis is “ Keep up appearances. As long as no one knows how weak you are, you are relatively safe.” The woman who has experienced her sex as a source of inferiority, and consequently has the mistaken notion that it is better to be a man than to be a woman, expresses her “ masculine protest ” in terms of the vital training formula : “I must be as nearly like a man as possible.” Her formula is very similar to that of the male who doubts his masculinity, and she uses the same false dialectic in order to exclude any situation which would show her in her true role, a woman. This particular training formula deserves further elucidation because it is one of the chief sources of unhappiness among modern women. The scheme of apperception of the “ masculine protest ” is such that every situation which shows a woman in her normal rdle is excluded. There is a simultaneous over-valuation of the so-called “ masculine ”, and an under-valuation of the so-called “ feminine ”. It begins in early childhood with the dissatisfied girl's preference for boys' games. Tree-