Stepchildren of nature: Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Oosterhuis, Harry 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago [u.a.] Univ. of Chicago Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
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Zusammenfassung:"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.
Beschreibung:X, 321 S. Ill.
ISBN:0226630595

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