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