Heinrich Kaan'S "Psychopathia Sexualis" (1844): A Classic Text In The History Of Sexuality (Cornell Studies In The History Of Psychiatry)
Cornell University Press
ISBN13:
9781501704604
$148.26
With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field.?Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 19741975 Heinrich Kaans fascinating workpart medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tracttakes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called a unified field of sexual abnormality. Kaans taxonomy consists of six sexual aberrations: masturbation, pederasty, lesbian love, necrophilia, bestiality, and the violation of statues. Kaan not only inaugurated the field of sexology, but played a significant role in the regimes of knowledge production and discipline about psychiatric and sexual subjects. As Benjamin Kahan argues in his Introduction, Kaans text crucially enables us to see how homosexuality replaced masturbation as the central concern of Euro-American sexual regulation. Kaans work (translated into English for the first time here) opens a new window onto the history of sexuality and the history of sexology and reconfigures our understanding of Richard von Krafft-Ebings book of the same name, published some forty years later.
- | Author: Heinrich Kaan, Benjamin Kahan
- | Publisher: Cornell University Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 25, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/HEALTH & FITNESS
- | ISBN-10: 1501704605
- | ISBN-13: 9781501704604
- Author:
- Heinrich Kaan, Benjamin Kahan
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 25, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/HEALTH & FITNESS
- ISBN-10:
- 1501704605
- ISBN-13:
- 9781501704604