Otto Weininger
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Oct 6, 2026
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These flash through the soul and discharge themselves like storms.
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But be in no doubt about it, every human soul has the tendency to experience the very same things that Otto Weininger experienced in such an extreme, radically paradoxical fashion.
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They are there in the depths of every human soul.
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Ordinary people, who are not so disposed as Weininger was to experience their own genius, express it through their dreams, but always as dreams.
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That is a profound truth.
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Between now and tomorrow, reflect on the extent to which astronomy is governing your waking consciousness and the extent to which meteorology rules in your unconscious.
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Yesterday, Otto Weininger provided us with an example of a man in whom astronomy came to expression only to be obscured by meteorological clouds.
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We will speak further about this tomorrow.
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In anticipation of value judgments that might insinuate themselves into our discussions, I begin by saying that from a universal point of view, the earthly sphere has as much value as the heavenly.
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I did not want anyone to harbor the belief that we were devaluing the feminine, in the style of Weininger, by taking some elevated mystical standpoint that makes it out to be merely earthly or merely Gaian.
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Each is the pole of the other, and this has nothing to do with sexuality.
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What, then, is going on in the human being, in the human organization, during the first seven years? You must take what I am going to describe as the predominant circumstances.
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Given their atavistic knowledge of the spiritual world, it never would have occurred to them to begin applying sexual terms to those who were still children.
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I have already alluded to these things in other contexts.
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In the light of these important truths about the human being that we have obtained from the spiritual world, truths concerning man's relation to the earthly and heavenly worlds, you can begin to appreciate how the caricature-like ideas of such a man as Weininger do have a certain justification.
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For if he could have understood matters in the way they have been presented here, he would have been justified in saying, quote, a human being comes into this physical world from the spiritual world in such a way that the head must first develop here in the physical world for seven years before it can produce the masculine out of heavenly forces and the feminine out of earthly forces, close quote.
Trudy GoldGUEST
And I'm going to use examples from Germany.
Trudy GoldGUEST
There was a disciple of Freud, a young man called Otto Weininger.
Trudy GoldGUEST
He was absolutely brilliant.
Trudy GoldGUEST
He wrote a book called Sex and Character.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the curveball misses low to Baylor.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It'll be Baylor, Weininger, Kemp against left-hander John Tudor.
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So far, the story's been day for Getty.
Phil RizzutoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He has struck out five.
Bill WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, Rice is not playing shallow.
Bill WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He plays the deep left.
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And the breaking ball is outside to Weininger.
Bill WhiteSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's 1-1.