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climbing is considered more desirable than dolls, teasets,
and sewing. It continues with her interest in hunting,
athletics, cocktail parties, and smoking (formerly con¬
sidered male prerogatives) instead of participation in the
household and aesthetic arts. In mature life it expresses
itself in a disinclination to marry and have children, and
a preference for a business or artistic “ career ”.
In the sexual relation this type of woman is usually
frigid, because, if she were to show evidence of normal
passion, she would admit her true femininity. The sexual
relation is transformed into an arena in which the woman
with the masculine protest remains for ever the victor
because she seems to express her superiority by the fiction
of being incapable of being satisfied or aroused by any
man. The physiological differences in the sexual organiza¬
tion of women and men play into the hands of these
masculine women. Lesbianism is the final expression of
the flight from the feminine rdle.
The process of training ourselves to conquer our
inferiority complex by approaching our unconscious goal
of power, security, and self-esteem, requires more than a
scheme of apperception to test experiences in advance
and to break them up into their unit components, thus
rendering them psychologically capable of assimilation.
It requires more than a vital training formula which more
or less directs the scheme of apperception to those human
activities where it is likely to find material for psychic
assimilation. The training process encompasses our entire
life, and we unconsciously train ourselves to attain our
goal not only by looking forward into the future, but also
by looking backward into the past to assure ourselves
that we are on the right way. The devices which look
forward are the conscious processes of reason, planning,
will, choice, study, concentration, and attention, together
with the more or Jess unconscious processes of dream,
phantasy, imagination, and wishful thinking. Those
which look backward are chiefly memory, recollection,
and the rationalization of our past actions.