Sensation and feeling -- Avenarius’ division into “element” and “character” -- These inseparable at the earliest stage -- Process of “clarification” -- Presentiments -- Grades of understanding -- Forgetting -- Paths and organisation -- Conception of “henids” -- The henid as the simplest, psychical datum -- Sexual differences in the organisation of the contents of the mind -- Sensibility -- Certainty of judgment -- Developed consciousness as a male character
Genius and talent -- Genius and giftedness -- Methods -- Comprehension of many men -- What is meant by comprehending men -- Great complexity of genius -- Periods in psychic life -- No disparagement of famous men -- Understanding and noticing -- Universal consciousness of genius -- Greatest distance from the henid stage -- A higher grade of maleness -- Genius always universal -- The female devoid of genius or of hero-worship -- Giftedness and sex
Organisation and the power of reproducing thoughts -- Memory of experiences a sign of genius -- Remarks and conclusions -- Remembrance and apperception -- Capacity for comparison and acquisition -- Reasons for the masculinity of music, drawing and painting -- Degrees of genius -- Relation of genius to ordinary men -- Autobiography -- Fixed ideas -- Remembrance of personal creations -- Continuous and discontinuance memory -- Continuity and piety -- Past and present -- Past and future -- Desire for immortality -- Existing psychological explanations -- True origin -- Inner development of man until death -- Ontogenetic psychology or theoretical biography -- Woman lacking in the desire for immortality -- Further extension of relation of memory to genius -- Memory and time -- Postulate of timelessness -- Value as a timeless quality -- First law of the theory of value -- Proofs -- Individuation and duration constituents of value -- Desire for immortality a special case -- Desire for immortality in genius connected with timelessness, by his universal memory and the duration of his creations -- Genius and history -- Genius and nations -- Genius and language -- Men of action and men of science, not to be called men of genius -- Philosophers, founders of religion and artists have genius