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Heinrich Kaan´s Psychopathia Sexualis (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality
Heinrich Kaan
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Paperback. Editor(s): Kahan, Benjamin A. Translator(s): Haynes, Melissa. Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5, 5 charts. BIC Classification: JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 College 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 ... Read more
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 College 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
Condition
New
Weight
267g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501704611
SKU
V9781501704611
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About Heinrich Kaan
Heinrich Kaan (1816-1893) was a physician in Vienna and a pioneering sexologist. Benjamin Kahan is Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life. Melissa Haynes is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University.
Reviews for Heinrich Kaan´s Psychopathia Sexualis (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality
In their expertly rendered translation of Psychopathia Sexualis, Benjamin Kahan and Melissa Haynes have produced a milestone edition of a milestone work. Heinrich Kaan's treatise provides a critical bridge between Enlightenment philosophy and the science of mind; it is a landmark contribution to the histories of sexuality, psychiatry, and modernity.
Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, author of The ... Read more Anyone who has read Foucault's History of Sexuality will know that Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis is a crucial early work in the emergence of sexology, a work that was destined, as Benjamin Kahan makes clear in his sharp introduction, for a number of queer and vivid afterlives. What Kahan rightly calls the 'luminous strangeness' of Kaan's text will make it of vital interest to historians of psychology and of science, as well as to scholars working across many disciplines in the historiography of sexuality.
Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America An important and revelatory addition to the historical literature of sexology, this translation of Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis takes us earlier in the nineteenth century than we are often accustomed to go in search of the origins of the strange fiction of a specific 'sexual instinct' and, perforce, of its lovely aberrations. Benjamin Kahan and Melissa Haynes have prepared a meticulous and elegant edition, for which we are in their debt.
Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles, editor of The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories In the preface to his two-part treatise, Kaan states that his intentions are to call physicians' attention to the condition he terms sexual madness, caused by a diseased imagination, and to attempt to correct publicly held errors and misunderstandings.... This translated text has much to offer those who are interested in the history of sexology, the scientific method, and the social construction of gender. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty.
P. Lefler, Bluegrass Community & Technical College
CHOICE
The liminal status of the first Psychopathia Sexualis-its position near the end of a centuries-old mode of scholarly discourse and at the inauguration of a new disciplinary organization of knowledge-render Kaan's project interesting now in ways that it couldn't be for its contemporary audience. What's striking here-especially given the text is written in a language with liturgical and theological associations-is that Kaan begins and remains on a strictly naturalistic level of description and explanation. Kaan's work had some important implications. It treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature-with nonprocreative forms being, in effect, the accidental effect of a natural force being redirected via the brain.
Scott McLemee
Inside Higher Ed
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Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, author of The ... Read more Anyone who has read Foucault's History of Sexuality will know that Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis is a crucial early work in the emergence of sexology, a work that was destined, as Benjamin Kahan makes clear in his sharp introduction, for a number of queer and vivid afterlives. What Kahan rightly calls the 'luminous strangeness' of Kaan's text will make it of vital interest to historians of psychology and of science, as well as to scholars working across many disciplines in the historiography of sexuality.
Peter Coviello, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America An important and revelatory addition to the historical literature of sexology, this translation of Heinrich Kaan's Psychopathia Sexualis takes us earlier in the nineteenth century than we are often accustomed to go in search of the origins of the strange fiction of a specific 'sexual instinct' and, perforce, of its lovely aberrations. Benjamin Kahan and Melissa Haynes have prepared a meticulous and elegant edition, for which we are in their debt.
Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles, editor of The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories In the preface to his two-part treatise, Kaan states that his intentions are to call physicians' attention to the condition he terms sexual madness, caused by a diseased imagination, and to attempt to correct publicly held errors and misunderstandings.... This translated text has much to offer those who are interested in the history of sexology, the scientific method, and the social construction of gender. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty.
P. Lefler, Bluegrass Community & Technical College
CHOICE
The liminal status of the first Psychopathia Sexualis-its position near the end of a centuries-old mode of scholarly discourse and at the inauguration of a new disciplinary organization of knowledge-render Kaan's project interesting now in ways that it couldn't be for its contemporary audience. What's striking here-especially given the text is written in a language with liturgical and theological associations-is that Kaan begins and remains on a strictly naturalistic level of description and explanation. Kaan's work had some important implications. It treated human sexuality as entirely explicable within nature-with nonprocreative forms being, in effect, the accidental effect of a natural force being redirected via the brain.
Scott McLemee
Inside Higher Ed
Show Less