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Freud later said his relations to Weininger were very complicated.

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For a recent assessment and overview, see David S. Luft, Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 45–90.

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For an upbeat survey of literary suicides, which includes a discussion of Weininger, see Gary Lachman, The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters Sawtry, UK: Dedalus, 2008.

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However, in a long footnote to a case study some years earlier, Jews and Weininger do show up, and another piece snaps into place, an inner link between misogyny and anti-Semitism.

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Otto Weininger, twenty-three, had published his first book, Sex and Character, a few months earlier.49 Without doubt his suicide drew attention to the book, an attention that has never slackened.

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When it seems that Weininger has reached yet another new high or new low—Mathematically speaking, she has no algebraic sign.

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Nevertheless, Weininger executed an about-face and posited a fixed sexual identity linked to fixed qualities.

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From this Weininger deduces that everything in woman functions as an instrument of her sexuality, her desire to copulate and reproduce.

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See also Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger, eds.

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Weininger wants to investigate “the meaning of this being.”

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