The Flight from Woman
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The Flight from Woman is a book by psychiatrist Karl Stern
, first published in 1965 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. It is described as a study of the polarity of the sexes as reflected in the conflict between two modes of knowledge - scientific or rational, as contrasted with intuitive or poetic. In the course of exploring this theme Stern undertakes to provide psychological portraits of six representative figures whose thought and work have influenced modern man: Descartes, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, and Sartre.
Reviews
Man, Woman, and Person: Karl Stern, The Flight from Woman, Z. John Levay, M. D. Modern Age Volume 11, Number 1, page 83 http://www.mmisi.org/ma/11_01/levay.pdf
Karl Stern
Karl Stern , German-Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Jewish convert to the Catholic Church. Stern is best known for his account of his conversion in Pillar of Fire .-Life:...
, first published in 1965 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. It is described as a study of the polarity of the sexes as reflected in the conflict between two modes of knowledge - scientific or rational, as contrasted with intuitive or poetic. In the course of exploring this theme Stern undertakes to provide psychological portraits of six representative figures whose thought and work have influenced modern man: Descartes, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, and Sartre.
Reviews
Man, Woman, and Person: Karl Stern, The Flight from Woman, Z. John Levay, M. D. Modern Age Volume 11, Number 1, page 83 http://www.mmisi.org/ma/11_01/levay.pdf