THE BACHELOR GIRL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 26

THE BACHELOR GIRL

A COMPLEX OF TO-DAY EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION "The bachelor girl is an interesting psychological condition in life which is" becoming marked all over the world," said Dr. Herbert Sutcliffe, when addressing members of the Penwomen's Club yesterday afternoon. _ "I do not think it is due to economic conditions, but to neuroticism combined with misunderstanding, and a false idealism obtained between the ages of 11 and 14," lie said. "The world altogether is more neurotic now than at any other time and the condition bas much to do with the bachelor girl complex of to-day. T\ oman s situation is difficult because she is becoming emancipated. There is a tremendous development ill the emancipation of the soul of woman and because of that, there- seems to be a reaction, which brings about neuroticism." Psychology was a more or less new thing of which but a superficial knowledge was achieved, continued the speaker. Rhythms possibly unknown to people could be contacted, utilised and magnified for their own benefit and sooner or later they would have to grasp the importance of consciously contacting and utilising those rhythms of the spirit. Woman was the symbol of love, emotion and creation, and if she understood her own part in human life she would make tremendous progress by recognising her own symbology. The world had failed utterly in the human life in regard to the intelligent direction of the mind of man, and women, being the symbol of emotion, should be the leading light in directing the world into the truth.