Become Who You Are

Index

Index  113 activism, political, 96, 98 activity, 76, 79, 87, 88, 100; erotic, 87; female, 88; for boys, 82; for girls, 82, 88; is joy,100; physical, 82, 87 age, 30, 74, 75, 77, 78, 86, 93; appropriate , 76; as chain, 32; as enemy, 77; as guilt, 68; as offense, 70; reverence for, 72; symptoms of, 75; ugliness of, 75; weakness of, 72 aged woman, 7, 70 aging, xi, 30, 85, 89, 91, 92, 98; woman, 79; problems of aging for women, 85 Agnes Schmidt, 9, 26, 40, 45, 53, 82, 86–89, 91, 92, 94–99; as a child, 9–17; as a name, 33, 40; as mother, 87, 88, 99; as wife, 87, 88, 99; as widow, 88, 89; chained up nature of, 32, 90; childhood, 87; Frau Schmidt, 26 anachronism, 24, 60, 89, 93, 97; of the heart, 7 ancient stone, 97; runic character of, 30 anxiety, 13 apathy, 24 Apennine Mountain range, 46 appearance, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 16, 21, 25, 26, 30, 44, 57, 61, 65, 75, 76, 86, 92, 94 aristocracy, 70 art, 32, 47, 78 artist, 68, 91 ashes, 5, 33, 52, 65 astral body, 69 “Auf dem Sterbebett (1919, nach dem Weltkrieg von 1914–1918),” 84 Austrian, 85 autobiographical: novels, 83; work, 84 awakening, 45 Balzac, 69 barbarians, 49 barbaric peoples, 68 barbarism, 31 beauty, 25, 28, 44, 48, 49, 57, 62, 65, 66, 75, 78; aesthetic joy of, 68; soul-beauty, 61 Become WhoYou Are, xi, 1–66, 85, 87, 91, 98, 99 being: double, 61, 93; inner, 12; inner/outward, 30; not-being, 45 being alone, 17, 27, 36, 37, 59, 63, 88, 93; solitude, 52 belief(s), 25, 89, 97 Berlin, 13, 14, 22, 30, 42, 51, 53, 82, 84, 86, 90, 91 Beyond, the, 65, 68, 70 Bildung, 82, 91, 98 birth, 9, 12, 28, 65, 68, 72 blood, 8, 18, 24, 27, 33, 41, 42, 60, 63, 65, 66, 94; blood-red, 4, 27, 59; blood-sprinkled, 64 Boboli Gardens, 45, 47, 48; Olympian character of, 48 Böcklin, 26 bourgeois life, 35 brain, 8, 33, 34, 35, 37, 50, 51, 64, 92, 100; fibers, 50 Brandt, Heike, 85 bride, 4 bronze tablets (of law) 43, 65 Bülow, Hans von, 82 burdensomeness, 74 bureaucrat, 12, 19 burial flames, 8, 46, 91 Capri, 4, 5, 52, 53, 56–58, 63, 86 casket, 51, 63, 91; lid, 33–34, 63, 65, 91, 92 chain: of age, 32; of one’s nature, 32 chancellery councilor, 10, 11, 33 change, 4, 14, 92, 95, 99 charity, 56 chaos, 33, 41, 92 chaotic, 51 childhood, 31, 61, 76, 82, 83, 88 Childhood Memories of an Old Berlin Woman, 81 Christ, 94, 97 Christa Ruland, 84 Christianity, 81 Christ’s torture, 56 churchyard, 16, 46 clairvoyance, 51 cliff(s), 6, 52, 56, 62, 94 comedies, x, 83 common folk, 69 confinement, 95; social, 92 connections: political, 74; social, 74 conscience, 17, 36 consciousness, 7, 38, 69, 71, 87 constellation, 67 constraints, 8 constrictions, social, 90 construction, social, 99 Corday, Charlotte, 36 cosmos, 40, 51 courage, 77, 85, 90 crazy, 8, 9 creation, 49 cross, 8, 42, 56, 94 crown of creation, 49 crown of thorns, 4, 94 culture, male-dominated, 98 custom(s), 68, 73, 74, 86; social, 74, 97 dead, 8, 46, 57; realm of, 61; the, 78; youth, 58 Death, 69 death, 8, 9, 23, 25, 33, 34, 46, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 77, 78, 89, 95; dance, 58; day of, 46 deathbed, 91, 95 delight, 61, 71 desire, 35, 60, 61, 63, 98 despair, 61 destiny, 74, 95 devil, 8, 37, 70; devil’s grandmother, 70; devil’s mother, 70 discrepancy, 87 “Die alte Frau,” xi, 85 dilemma, inner, 92 distinction, 70 divorce, 36 Dohm, Ernst, 82, 83 Dohm, Hedwig, ix, xi, 81, 83–91, 95–100; and mother, 81–82; and 114 Index women’s movement, x; as activist, x; as mother, 83; as pacifist, 85; as thinker, 84; as writer, x, 84; champion of rights, ix, 84; childhood, 81–82, 87; death, 84; family, 81, 100; family life, 82; family situation, 99; father, 82; married life, 83 dream(s), 17, 26, 56, 59, 61, 62, 83, 95; lifelong, 91; waking, 31 dreaming, 41 dream-like, 52; dream-like-beings, 59 dream-world, 7, 10, 17 dreamy, 48 dutiful, 31, 32 duty, 17; caretaker, 2, 15; ethical, 72; financial, 74; of...