| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
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Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Heinrich Kaan?s fascinating work?part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract?takes 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.? Kaan?s 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. 00As Benjamin Kahan argues in his Introduction, Kaan?s text crucially enables us to see how homosexuality replaced masturbation as the central concern of Euro-American sexual regulation. Kaan?s 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-Ebing?s book of the same name, published some forty years later. |
| Contents |
Heinrich Kaan's "Psychopathia Sexualis" (1844); Contents; Editor's Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction: The First Sexology?; Translator's Note; Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis (1844); Part 1; Part 2; Appendix (Translation from German by Maya Vinokour); Notes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Sex (Psychology)
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Sex (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kahan, Benjamin, editor.
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Haynes, Melissa, translator.
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| Added Title |
Psychopathia sexualis. English (Kahan) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016048511
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaan, Heinrich, 1816-1893. Psychopathia sexualis. English (Kahan). Heinrich Kaan's "Psychopathia sexualis" (1844). Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501704604 1501704605 (DLC) 2016016900 (OCoLC)949828466 |
| ISBN |
9781501706103 (electronic book) |
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1501706101 (electronic book) |
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9781501704604 |
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1501704605 |
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9781501704611 |
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1501704613 |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9781501706103 |
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