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Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality

Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality

Kaan, Heinrich
Haynes, Melissa
Kahan, Benjamin

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Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry

Sports GeneralSexuality

ISBN10: 1501704613
ISBN13: 9781501704611
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Oct 25 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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, 1974-1975.

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.

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