The existence of women in the world of men

Even in the era of antiquity, philosophers identified the female element as “being” and male - as “doing”. The mind and logic of the masculine world have always been opposed to the emotions and sensuality of the female world. With the development of science, psychological aspects complemented the problem of female being. The world still remains masculine, so the woman in it at a subconscious level resorts to the mechanisms of psychological defense. On the one hand, this is the inclusion of views, motives, attitudes (introjection) perceived from men in your inner world, which often goes into the identification of a woman based on emotional attachment to a man, up to the creation of an idol in her imagination. On the other hand, all this is accompanied by a woman with the desire to defend her “I”, not to lose individuality, not to be suppressed in the world of men. As a result, the being of a woman turns into complete drama, ups and falls existence. Two outstanding women write about him in this book: Paola Lombroso (1871-1954)-Italian psychologist and sociologist, daughter of the famous psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso, and Simon de Bovoir (1908-1986)-French philosopher and sociologist, friend Jean-Paul Sartra