 Part 4 examines how the difference of Geschlecht sets the sexes apart in more ways than simply with regard to sexuality. As Susman argues, this difference is rooted in the depths of the “blind life’s” interference with individual life (1912: 105). The law of begetting and birthing structures the lives of men and women in profoundly different ways. Man’s relation to objectivity and tendency to posit values above and beyond himself, Susman suggests, is oriented to the outside, or what stands apart. Man as a creating, constructing being is outside-oriented, while woman returns to herself, taking the world back into herself. Motherhood and her maternal dimension structure how woman relates to the world, defining both genders in ways that complement each other. Susman, herself a young mother who had given birth to her son Erwin in 1907, highlights the limitations of both genders which set them apart from one another. The world according to man, she argues, requires a radical rethinking from woman’s perspective. Unlike romantic accounts of birth-giving and motherhood that celebrate human reproduction as a higher transcendental goal while reinforcing conventional patterns of gender roles, Susman’s does not suggest that woman has a more direct and immediate link to life and reality. She has neither an ontological advantage over man, nor an ontological disadvantage: the difference between men and women is just that: alterity rather than one-sided inadequacy.