# Chapter 148 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

> Chapter companion for Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

## What happens

A brief, aphoristic reflection on the social and psychological power of women, focusing on their ability to shape and then internalize the opinions of others.

## Themes in this chapter

### Psychology as the Fundamental Science

The chapter is a concise exercise in psychological observation, analyzing a specific social mechanism of influence and self-persuasion attributed to women.

## Key lines

> To seduce their neighbour to a favourable opinion, and afterwards to believe implicitly in this opinion of their neighbour⁠—who can do this conjuring trick so well as women?

Women are uniquely skilled at the psychological trick of first persuading someone to hold a good opinion of them, and then coming to wholeheartedly believe that opinion themselves.

_Highlights a perceived feminine capacity for social manipulation and subsequent self-deception, framed as a rhetorical question._

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