# Chapter 86 explained — Beyond Good and Evil

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

## What happens

A brief, aphoristic observation on the duality of women's self-perception, noting that beneath their personal vanity lies an impersonal scorn for the abstract concept of 'woman'.

## Themes in this chapter

### Psychology as the Fundamental Science

The excerpt offers a sharp psychological insight into a perceived internal contradiction within women's self-regard, treating vanity and scorn as fundamental psychological drives.

## Key lines

> In the background of all their personal vanity, women themselves have still their impersonal scorn⁠—for “woman.”

Despite their individual self-importance, women harbor a deep, generalized contempt for the very idea of womanhood.

_Highlights a psychological split between personal identity and a judgmental, abstract view of one's own kind._

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