Stepchildren of nature
Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity
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Author
Publication
2000 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
80,250 words, Guess
Page Count
321 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestepchildrenofna00oost
- ISBN-100226630595
- ISBN-139780226630595
- Library of Congress Control Number00023399
- OCLC Control Number43567615
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24749869M
Classifications
- DDC616.85/83/009034
- LCCHQ71 .O57 2000
Description
"Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) played a key role in the construction of the modern concept of sexuality." "In this new cultural history Harry Oosterhuis invites us to reconsider the quality and extent of Krafft-Ebing's influence. Revisiting the case studies on which Krafft-Ebing based his findings, and thus drawing on the voices of his patients and informants, Oosterhuis finds that Krafft-Ebing was not the harsh judge of perversions that we think he was. He argues that Krafft-Ebing had a deep appreciation of the psyche, and that his work reveals an attempt to separate sexual deviancies from ideas of immorality. In the tradition of Freud, then, Krafft-Ebing should stand not as a villain, but as a contributor to more modern notions of sexual identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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- The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
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