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7. Eugene Minkowski, “Findings in a Case of Schizophrenic Depression,” in Existence, A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology, pp. 132 ff.
8. O. Hobart Mowrer, “Time as a Determinant in Integrative Learning,” in Learning Theory and Personality Dynamics, New York, 1950.
9. Eugene Minkowski, op. cit., pp. 133—138:
We think and act and desire beyond that death which, even so, we could not escape. The very existence of such phenomena as the desire to do something for future generations clearly indicates our attitude in this regard. In our patient, it was this propulsion toward the future which seemed to be totally lacking…. In this personal impetus, there is an element of expansion; we go beyond the limits of our own ego and leave a personal imprint on the world about us, creating works which sever themselves from us to live their own lives. This accompanies a specific, positive feeling which we call contentment—that pleasure which accompanies every finished action or firm decision. As a feeling, it is unique As a feeling, it is unique. Our entire individual evolution consists in trying to surpass that which has already been done. When our mental life dims, the future closes in front of us unique….
10. Rollo May, “Contributions of Existential Psychotherapy,” pp. 31 ff. In Nietzsche’s philosophy, human individuality and dignity are “given or assigned to us as a task which we ourselves must solve” in Tillich’s philosophy, if you do not have the “courage to be,” you lose your own being; in Sartre’s, you are your choices.
11. A. H. Maslow, Motivation and Personality, p. 83.
12. A. H. Maslow,’ some Basic Propositions of Holistic-Dynamic Psychology,” an unpublished paper, Brandeis University.
13. Ibid.
14. A. H. Maslow, “Dominance, Personality and Social Behavior in Women,” Journal of Social Psychology, 1939, Vol. 10, pp. 3—39; and “Self Esteem (Dominance-Feeling) and Sexuality in Women,” Journal of Social Psychology, 1942, Vol. 16, pp. 259—294.
15. A. H. Maslow, “Dominance, Personality and Social Behavior in Women,” op. cit., pp. 3—11.
16. Ibid., pp. 13 ff.
17. Ibid., p. 180.
18. A. H. Maslow,’ self-Esteem (Dominance-Feeling) and Sexuality in Women, “p. 288. Maslow points out, however, that women with “ego insecurity” pretended a “self-esteem—they did not actually have. Such women had to “dominate,” in the ordinary sense, in their sexual relations, to compensate for their “ego insecurity” thus, they were either castrative or masochistic. As I have pointed out, such women must have been very common in a society which gives women little chance for true self-esteem; this was undoubtedly the basis of the man-eating myth, and of Freud’s equation of femininity with castrative penis envy and/or masochistic passivity.
19. A. H. Maslow, Motivation and Personality, pp. 200 ff.
20. Ibid., pp. 211 ff.
21. Ibid., p. 214.
22. Ibid., pp. 242 ff.
23. Ibid., pp. 257 ff. Maslow found that his self-actualizing people “have in unusual measure the rare ability to be pleased rather than threatened by the partner’s triumphs…. A most impressive example of this respect is the ungrudging pride of such a man in his wife’s achievements even where they outshine his.” (Ibid., p. 252).
24. Ibid., p. 245.
25. Ibid., p. 255.
26. A. C. Kinsey, et al., Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, pp. 356 ff.; Table 97, p. 397; Table 104, p. 403.
Decade of Birth vs. Percentage of Marital Coitus Leading to Orgasm
27. Ibid., p. 355.
28. See Judson T. Landis, “The Women Kinsey Studied, “George Simpson, “Nonsense about Women,” and A. H. Maslow and James M. Sakoda, “Volunteer Error in the Kinsey Study,” in Sexual Behavior in American Society.
29. Ernest W. Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell,