{"id":158,"date":"2008-07-20T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-04-03T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:54:35","slug":"vienese-sic-lunatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/weininger\/vienese-sic-lunatic-158","title":{"rendered":"“Vienese [sic]<\/i> lunatic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notes on James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n
Editor’s note:<\/em> Mellow’s was an early reference to the Stein’s Otto Weininger connection, it seems, with a view to ridicule by association.<\/div>\n

120<\/em>
\nStein’s characterological obsession is suggested as having its origin with Weininger. [It is more likely that Weininger provided her much needed corroboration for a pre-existing obsession. He basically validated her inclination. Though what may have ultimately motivated them can be enlighteningly distinguished, the consonance between them is striking.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adele’s eureka in Q.E.D. at having discovered a “mathematical” aspect to her relationship to Helen.<\/p>\n

121<\/em><\/p>\n

Whether Gertrude, as a woman and a Jew, overlooked or dismissed the more rabid philosophizing of Weininger is not altogether clear. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[We suggest she did not have occasion to overlook it because she did not perceive it as “rabid.” See Stein’s recently discovered typescript<\/a> in Wineapple.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stein recommended Weininger’s book to Marian Walker, her feminist friend from her Johns Hopkins medical school days. Marian wrote to Stein on June 11th, 1909:<\/p>\n

By the way, in an idle moment I read the book on sex which you said exactly embodied your views—the one by the Vienese [sic<\/em>]* lunatic. It struck me that you made a mistake in your statement—it was evidently before not after he wrote the book that he went insane. We had a considerable amount of fun, however, in calculating the percentage of male and female in our various friends according to his classification. But he was really a very half-baked individual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Editor’s note:<\/em> The “[sic<\/em>]” appears, not in Mellow, but in the version of this quote found in Brenda Wineapple’s Sister Brother<\/em>, p. 265. Luno must have confused his notes—or, perhaps, found the sic charming.<\/div>\n

Stein writes, “Pablo & Matisse have a maleness that belongs to genius. Moi aussi<\/em> perhaps.” (From notes made during the composition of The Making of Americans<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

121-2<\/em>
\nJust as Walker thought Weininger “half-baked,” so Mellow considers The Making of Americans,<\/em> and he seems to takes a dim view of Stein’s comment that it should be classed among the greatest literary works of the century, the other two being Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past<\/em> and Joyce’s Ulysses<\/em>. [We will have to investigate whether Weininger was not somewhere in the background of Proust’s work (there is a faint reference in Sengoopta to the effect) as we know it was behind the other two “greatest literary works of the century.”]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notes on James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company Editor’s note: Mellow’s was an early reference to the Stein’s Otto Weininger connection, it seems, with a view to ridicule by association. 120 Stein’s characterological obsession is suggested as having its origin with Weininger. [It is more likely that Weininger provided her much needed … <\/p>\n

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