WOMEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW in TEST (1929) What is called the "new woman" is a rather complicated entity that consists, at least, a new woman plus a new man no longer a child again plus a new society. I confess that I should think about that before agreeing to speak, especially since it is not even absolutely sure that the new woman is real and not be judged rather momentarily such.
I can therefore address a number of issues that interest me in particular, including that of "the old-fashioned wife" more precisely, in our case, the woman who goes from little to old-fashioned in our midst, the middle most of our contemporaries. In one important respect, it has been more consistent than the news it to bundle up from head to toe, while the new one is only partially nude. Questions-Is there a sexagenarian on memories of his youth, he said that today's woman can neither dress nor undress, and there is some truth to which we must not delude those old fashion plates where women have you looked so ridiculous that this appears suddenly, with your permission, as a miracle of modern times. These are concretions from which all life has retired, replays of love where the reduced form itself is frightening, as she always does when she is no longer bathed by the flow of feeling. However, if you get rid of bias current without réendosser those of the past and that we consider these dresses and hats like those we learned to make the Baroque statues, they blame a lack of good taste, but we can not do not see, however, lot of movement. Because of their drying by history, the masses of clothing with ruffles, bubbles, frills and flounces are given for what they really are: a prodigious multiplication of artificial surface erotic. The artwork done by the nature of producing, for the simple deployment and folding of a petal skin, animal and human forms and the enticements of love, finds himself here if not exceeded with elegance, less effectively. The garment of women's task was outdated - and his morals as well - to host and distribute the penetrating masculine desire, he distributed the too simple radius of that desire over a wide area - and morally, on all sorts of obstacles - such as, a single stream, it irrigates a vast country and, according to the law that gives pleasure and the desire an exceptional situation among the human forces, because the barriers to exalt rather than weaken, it was the desire to almost ridiculous degree of intensity, so that the disclosures that we leave the ice now accounted for then a man of overwhelming adventure. But, not to limit ourselves to smile, let us remember the charming love stories told by Stendhal in his new Renaissance: should they not much of their luster with torches to the extraordinary difficulties that force the lovers do not see that often, secretly, at night, risking their lives? These are the spices that were beginning to fade may be an excess of absurdity; Nevertheless we are about to be permanently deprived.
Actually, I still give here, from this absurdity, another example, I'm a man long tormented by fears unfounded nerve, related to the history of his youth. He had spent his adolescence in a boarding school and described with some bitterness the way he and his comrades - it was around 1890 - is accounted for "Women." A romantic old library, a "treasure" or "garland" of new borrowed from world literature, this is from what source they drank: all women who were were beautiful, slim waist, hands and feet and tiny a very long hair. Character, they appeared alternately proud and gentle, cheerful and melancholy, but always very feminine and at the end of the story, so sweet and melting as baked potatoes. They were the dreams of young men who had not yet had the opportunity to look back on life, which followed a curious phenomenon. To be worthy of these women, he had a mustache to men that they could press their lips, mustache natural laws that allow young people to expect at least imminent. So they came to the wish as a 'preliminary pleasure', as they say, I think, today, and as that mustache would be, as the "treasure of the new" blonde or black, soft and long, the narrator had wanted a half of which was blonde and the other as a precaution, black, and one day the other longer, she had started out as just as long as that of a hero described in a first story, when a second story had created a second hero of equal value, it had doubled - to become, finally, at chance, as long as the sum of all existing mustache, even a little bit more. At this point, the boy understood - Blessed intuition! - The impossibility of desiring such a mustache, and later he was frightened, in retrospect, that his imagination might have inadvertently stray from that. In light of this experience, the woman inspired him a little terror; the smallness of the feet, hands, mouth, a thin waist, emphasizing the development of all parts where the physiology sees cushions of fat, many images were causing a tendency to reduce unlimited exhausting for the emotions. Soon the size was never quite thin, the mouth became the ideal size and roundness of a pinhead, handcuffs and toes were left posed like butterflies without force on the opulent chalice of the body. Such ideal contained undoubtedly the germ of a delusional behavior, and anyone who has a smattering of psychology think maybe this insatiable "need "Safety is, according to the school of Adler, a symptom of neurosis. But what to call this delusional behavior of morbid when you see the same growth in vacuum, the same tendency to a higher bid without fullness occur in any human activity that deviates from the natural terrain where they still rubbed a lot of interest oriented otherwise or the contrary? Degenerates into the mystical ascetic masochism, intellectual superiority in combination chess, the joys of exercise or competition in obsessive record. From the moment the grotesque shadow of this behavior unilateral spread the love, we can conclude anything other than that the ideal form that he had previously loaned began to decompose.
Since then there has been enough talk of the new woman so I can be brief on the transition. Until the time of parents and grandparents of two generations currently alive, the only admissible design of love was that of the knight in quest of his lady, and who finds, over time, it is true, hardships he had to overcome this effect were confined more and more between the pages of bad novels, moreover, the ideal Early Christian and chivalric was distributed so that the share in incombât rather chivalrous man, and by Christian women. This conception of love that continues to guide the life when she had almost disappeared has probably outlived its usefulness. So, limiting the age of love for the woman, short period that extends between the seventeenth and thirty-fourth year, loses its meaning: we do not already understand that almost no reserve result of a sublime design, exalted love, that we could meet them in the bud. Characteristically, the social situation of women has also rendered meaningless with all the exaggerations which follow. We must imagine that initially, the scope of the domestic economy was fairly large and diverse to fully occupy the person who was in charge, and the little that remains is nonetheless remained inherent in the notion, long since too big for him, mistress of the house is so powerful that the associated rights has become a little housewife slightly ridiculous, always talking foolishly its tasks. This development was bound to have its counterpart in dealing with children. The problem of child or, as we say today, the problem of generations is probably not where we usually seek in this early modern drives a need for early independence, or in any wave motion of culture and erecting parents children against each other, but simply, without doubt, is that where we once inherited an entire way of life, we inherit today, at best, the money and land. One could even argue that the problem of generations is closely related to the passage of the family house, built to cross the centuries and show rank social capital, to the apartment nomadic cities. Was shaken at the same time the notion of motherhood that gave the woman her dignity in the early compensating sacrifice of his youth. This concept without its frame, none survived more than a purely psychological requirement of authority, if it even highly intellectualized, may retain any reality, it lacks the peaceful demonstration of the material, which is not the spirit; therefore, disappointments in relationships between parents and children become inevitable, if only because they are overloaded with emotion. Limiting the number Children also helps add to the moral demands of relationships between spouses and between parents and children who have lost their extension. Since, on the other hand, the fertility decline is a direct consequence of the transformation of living conditions and economy, this example shows how evolutionary impulses from very different sources complement each other. One could cite many another in the same direction: the untenable legal status of women, working women, taking the influence on the formation of habits by the needs of lower classes once the general aspiration to moral conceptions more elastic , the weakening of individualism and finally, again, His Majesty the love that the heights of the eighteenth century and romanticism, fell into the hands of poorer manufacturers of novels and dramas. This vast network of innumerable details proves that the changes are not done by a single wave, but a mean distance of sustainable past, but try to predict where they lead, in such a mess, would require the enthusiasm of the Prophet . We are all informed about the flood of books, speeches, business or individual whose patronage came out in the space of a human life, what we call the new woman or the new status of women. But the most significant fact is undeniable that in the end, everything went differently than planned. The war has cost the masses of women respect the ideals and manly at the same time, the ideal woman, and the decisive battle, they are not champions of emancipation that have delivered, but tailors. The woman has not released the man by removing a particular field of activity, as it seemed at first, his actions were crucial to take possession of her pleasures, firstly, and to undress the other. It took until now for the new woman leaving the state of emergency in the literature of dissent or Reform, is revealed to the eyes of the people, and quickly took shape: the revolutionary process that leads to some caution.
Looking with that caution, and the eternal creature deserves sympathy as required to upset the world when she's afraid of a mouse, the current state of things, we can infer little like this: tired of being the ideal of a man who has lost the power of idealization, the woman took it upon herself to become its own model. Since the demon of noon seemed comical, the atmosphere has significantly purified. The woman no longer wants to be in no way an ideal, it wants to create, contribute to their development, like the man, even if it must be for the moment, without much success. In his new work, she still awkward young girl, most college students do not finish their studies, many people the professions uncontrollable and it still appeals to the instincts of his young partner: lean as a young boy, brother, sporting prudish and childish. The crowds of men dressed sitting on beds of theaters, along windows or reading the newspaper, she shows himself naked as a worm, but before she found some at the beach, she keeps on her still a few pieces of fabric the size of which even begins to rise recently. But these remnants of inconsistency will not play any role. What matters more is that the relationship with the children is still limited, mainly - and always for the moment - to preserve: the new woman has taken shape a little faster than the new mother. But it seems that the prosaic extremely attractive, which was always peculiar to the woman when she behaved naturally and not according to the dream of man - because people are often sensitive to their defense, a little prosaic, and let the best structurally donquichotteries creatures - will eventually be expressed in a streamlined pedagogy in which children will be certainly very well. The key in this case would be the sense of reality in a convicted sex for centuries to provide for the ideal of the other. I am not of those who bemoan the prosaic young women. The human body can not forever be confined to the role of physical receiver of excitations: in a relationship that valley, the time always comes when he is the showman, the actor himself, so the natural instinct is he combines still in him, with a specific system of representations and feelings that production of ideology is similar to a jet of water that rises and falls by turns over the centuries. Today, it is near its lowest point, almost invisible, but there is no doubt it goes higher, due to some new combination. The chances of such a resurgence are many and varied, and the future does that really hides like a veil, not a wall of prejudice pavement.
I can therefore address a number of issues that interest me in particular, including that of "the old-fashioned wife" more precisely, in our case, the woman who goes from little to old-fashioned in our midst, the middle most of our contemporaries. In one important respect, it has been more consistent than the news it to bundle up from head to toe, while the new one is only partially nude. Questions-Is there a sexagenarian on memories of his youth, he said that today's woman can neither dress nor undress, and there is some truth to which we must not delude those old fashion plates where women have you looked so ridiculous that this appears suddenly, with your permission, as a miracle of modern times. These are concretions from which all life has retired, replays of love where the reduced form itself is frightening, as she always does when she is no longer bathed by the flow of feeling. However, if you get rid of bias current without réendosser those of the past and that we consider these dresses and hats like those we learned to make the Baroque statues, they blame a lack of good taste, but we can not do not see, however, lot of movement. Because of their drying by history, the masses of clothing with ruffles, bubbles, frills and flounces are given for what they really are: a prodigious multiplication of artificial surface erotic. The artwork done by the nature of producing, for the simple deployment and folding of a petal skin, animal and human forms and the enticements of love, finds himself here if not exceeded with elegance, less effectively. The garment of women's task was outdated - and his morals as well - to host and distribute the penetrating masculine desire, he distributed the too simple radius of that desire over a wide area - and morally, on all sorts of obstacles - such as, a single stream, it irrigates a vast country and, according to the law that gives pleasure and the desire an exceptional situation among the human forces, because the barriers to exalt rather than weaken, it was the desire to almost ridiculous degree of intensity, so that the disclosures that we leave the ice now accounted for then a man of overwhelming adventure. But, not to limit ourselves to smile, let us remember the charming love stories told by Stendhal in his new Renaissance: should they not much of their luster with torches to the extraordinary difficulties that force the lovers do not see that often, secretly, at night, risking their lives? These are the spices that were beginning to fade may be an excess of absurdity; Nevertheless we are about to be permanently deprived.
Actually, I still give here, from this absurdity, another example, I'm a man long tormented by fears unfounded nerve, related to the history of his youth. He had spent his adolescence in a boarding school and described with some bitterness the way he and his comrades - it was around 1890 - is accounted for "Women." A romantic old library, a "treasure" or "garland" of new borrowed from world literature, this is from what source they drank: all women who were were beautiful, slim waist, hands and feet and tiny a very long hair. Character, they appeared alternately proud and gentle, cheerful and melancholy, but always very feminine and at the end of the story, so sweet and melting as baked potatoes. They were the dreams of young men who had not yet had the opportunity to look back on life, which followed a curious phenomenon. To be worthy of these women, he had a mustache to men that they could press their lips, mustache natural laws that allow young people to expect at least imminent. So they came to the wish as a 'preliminary pleasure', as they say, I think, today, and as that mustache would be, as the "treasure of the new" blonde or black, soft and long, the narrator had wanted a half of which was blonde and the other as a precaution, black, and one day the other longer, she had started out as just as long as that of a hero described in a first story, when a second story had created a second hero of equal value, it had doubled - to become, finally, at chance, as long as the sum of all existing mustache, even a little bit more. At this point, the boy understood - Blessed intuition! - The impossibility of desiring such a mustache, and later he was frightened, in retrospect, that his imagination might have inadvertently stray from that. In light of this experience, the woman inspired him a little terror; the smallness of the feet, hands, mouth, a thin waist, emphasizing the development of all parts where the physiology sees cushions of fat, many images were causing a tendency to reduce unlimited exhausting for the emotions. Soon the size was never quite thin, the mouth became the ideal size and roundness of a pinhead, handcuffs and toes were left posed like butterflies without force on the opulent chalice of the body. Such ideal contained undoubtedly the germ of a delusional behavior, and anyone who has a smattering of psychology think maybe this insatiable "need "Safety is, according to the school of Adler, a symptom of neurosis. But what to call this delusional behavior of morbid when you see the same growth in vacuum, the same tendency to a higher bid without fullness occur in any human activity that deviates from the natural terrain where they still rubbed a lot of interest oriented otherwise or the contrary? Degenerates into the mystical ascetic masochism, intellectual superiority in combination chess, the joys of exercise or competition in obsessive record. From the moment the grotesque shadow of this behavior unilateral spread the love, we can conclude anything other than that the ideal form that he had previously loaned began to decompose.
Since then there has been enough talk of the new woman so I can be brief on the transition. Until the time of parents and grandparents of two generations currently alive, the only admissible design of love was that of the knight in quest of his lady, and who finds, over time, it is true, hardships he had to overcome this effect were confined more and more between the pages of bad novels, moreover, the ideal Early Christian and chivalric was distributed so that the share in incombât rather chivalrous man, and by Christian women. This conception of love that continues to guide the life when she had almost disappeared has probably outlived its usefulness. So, limiting the age of love for the woman, short period that extends between the seventeenth and thirty-fourth year, loses its meaning: we do not already understand that almost no reserve result of a sublime design, exalted love, that we could meet them in the bud. Characteristically, the social situation of women has also rendered meaningless with all the exaggerations which follow. We must imagine that initially, the scope of the domestic economy was fairly large and diverse to fully occupy the person who was in charge, and the little that remains is nonetheless remained inherent in the notion, long since too big for him, mistress of the house is so powerful that the associated rights has become a little housewife slightly ridiculous, always talking foolishly its tasks. This development was bound to have its counterpart in dealing with children. The problem of child or, as we say today, the problem of generations is probably not where we usually seek in this early modern drives a need for early independence, or in any wave motion of culture and erecting parents children against each other, but simply, without doubt, is that where we once inherited an entire way of life, we inherit today, at best, the money and land. One could even argue that the problem of generations is closely related to the passage of the family house, built to cross the centuries and show rank social capital, to the apartment nomadic cities. Was shaken at the same time the notion of motherhood that gave the woman her dignity in the early compensating sacrifice of his youth. This concept without its frame, none survived more than a purely psychological requirement of authority, if it even highly intellectualized, may retain any reality, it lacks the peaceful demonstration of the material, which is not the spirit; therefore, disappointments in relationships between parents and children become inevitable, if only because they are overloaded with emotion. Limiting the number Children also helps add to the moral demands of relationships between spouses and between parents and children who have lost their extension. Since, on the other hand, the fertility decline is a direct consequence of the transformation of living conditions and economy, this example shows how evolutionary impulses from very different sources complement each other. One could cite many another in the same direction: the untenable legal status of women, working women, taking the influence on the formation of habits by the needs of lower classes once the general aspiration to moral conceptions more elastic , the weakening of individualism and finally, again, His Majesty the love that the heights of the eighteenth century and romanticism, fell into the hands of poorer manufacturers of novels and dramas. This vast network of innumerable details proves that the changes are not done by a single wave, but a mean distance of sustainable past, but try to predict where they lead, in such a mess, would require the enthusiasm of the Prophet . We are all informed about the flood of books, speeches, business or individual whose patronage came out in the space of a human life, what we call the new woman or the new status of women. But the most significant fact is undeniable that in the end, everything went differently than planned. The war has cost the masses of women respect the ideals and manly at the same time, the ideal woman, and the decisive battle, they are not champions of emancipation that have delivered, but tailors. The woman has not released the man by removing a particular field of activity, as it seemed at first, his actions were crucial to take possession of her pleasures, firstly, and to undress the other. It took until now for the new woman leaving the state of emergency in the literature of dissent or Reform, is revealed to the eyes of the people, and quickly took shape: the revolutionary process that leads to some caution.
Looking with that caution, and the eternal creature deserves sympathy as required to upset the world when she's afraid of a mouse, the current state of things, we can infer little like this: tired of being the ideal of a man who has lost the power of idealization, the woman took it upon herself to become its own model. Since the demon of noon seemed comical, the atmosphere has significantly purified. The woman no longer wants to be in no way an ideal, it wants to create, contribute to their development, like the man, even if it must be for the moment, without much success. In his new work, she still awkward young girl, most college students do not finish their studies, many people the professions uncontrollable and it still appeals to the instincts of his young partner: lean as a young boy, brother, sporting prudish and childish. The crowds of men dressed sitting on beds of theaters, along windows or reading the newspaper, she shows himself naked as a worm, but before she found some at the beach, she keeps on her still a few pieces of fabric the size of which even begins to rise recently. But these remnants of inconsistency will not play any role. What matters more is that the relationship with the children is still limited, mainly - and always for the moment - to preserve: the new woman has taken shape a little faster than the new mother. But it seems that the prosaic extremely attractive, which was always peculiar to the woman when she behaved naturally and not according to the dream of man - because people are often sensitive to their defense, a little prosaic, and let the best structurally donquichotteries creatures - will eventually be expressed in a streamlined pedagogy in which children will be certainly very well. The key in this case would be the sense of reality in a convicted sex for centuries to provide for the ideal of the other. I am not of those who bemoan the prosaic young women. The human body can not forever be confined to the role of physical receiver of excitations: in a relationship that valley, the time always comes when he is the showman, the actor himself, so the natural instinct is he combines still in him, with a specific system of representations and feelings that production of ideology is similar to a jet of water that rises and falls by turns over the centuries. Today, it is near its lowest point, almost invisible, but there is no doubt it goes higher, due to some new combination. The chances of such a resurgence are many and varied, and the future does that really hides like a veil, not a wall of prejudice pavement.
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