Freedom and Destiny (Norton Paperback) by May Rollo

Author:May, Rollo [May, Rollo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

* Light is thrown on this by contemporary research into the differing functions of the right and left hemispheres of the brain, begun by Dr. R. W. Sperry at the California Institute of Technology and now generally accepted in scientific quarters. These studies demonstrate that the left hemisphere, broadly speaking, channels logical, rational aspects of our experience, and the right hemisphere channels mainly the emotional, poetic, artistic ones. In our culture, women are reputed to develop the right-brain functions, and men depend more on the left brain. Thus, it can be asked whether women, in our culture, are more addicted to what Institoris and Sprenger called “evil superstitions.” We here state that this was simply a question of women being emotional, poetic, and imaginative.

This can be said only in a general sense, and should not be made into a rule. There are many exceptions, one of which we shall see presently in the personalities of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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