Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

365 Pages·2019·1.883 MB·English

by  Katie Sutton

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Sex between Body and Mind
Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the
German- speaking World, 1890s– 1930s
Katie Sutton
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
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For Judy and Kevin
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Contents
A Note on Translations and Editions ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Sex between Body and Mind 1
1 Redefining “Normal”: Childhood Sexuality
in Fin de siècle Sexology and Psychoanalysis 31
2 Treating the “Perversions”:
The Prewar Homosexuality Debate 60
3 How World War I Changed Sex Research:
War Neurotics, Shell Shock, and Sex in an Era
of Industrialized Violence 91
4 Discovering the Sex Hormones:
Rethinking Sexual Pathologies and Therapies
after World War I 118
5 Changing the Conversation:
Theorizing Female Sexuality in Interwar Sex Research 145
6 The Case of the Transvestite:
Expert Knowledges, Subjects, and Trans Identity Politics 173
Epilogue 202
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viii Contents
Notes 213
Bibliography 293
Index 335
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A Note on Translations and Editions
Unless otherwise noted, the translations from original German sources in this
book are my own. In several instances, I have elected to cite prominent English
translations of key works, as I explain below. A number of the texts examined
in this book were published in multiple editions, and were sometimes revised
substantially from one edition to another, or continued to be reissued and up-
dated after the author’s death. Where relevant, my analyses thematize these
differences across editions (such as for Sigmund Freud’s Three Essays on the
Theory of Sexuality); my selection of particular editions was at times also con-
strained by available library and archival holdings, which are often fragmen-
tary as a legacy of wars, histories of exile and professional upheaval, and some-
times also state censorship.
For Freud’s works, my translations are based on the 2000 German-
language Studienausgabe (Fischer, 2000), which contains additional editorial
commentary and precise information on editions and revisions. For the Three
Essays and Freud’s famous case study “Little Hans,” which I examine in chap-
ters 1 and 2, I have chosen to cite from the renowned English translation by
James Strachey in the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works
of Sigmund Freud (Hogarth Press, 1953– 1974), which will be most familiar to
English readers. Considered far more definitive than the A. A. Brill translation
of the second edition in 1910, Strachey’s translation of the Three Essays was
based on the final, 1924 edition published in the Gesammelte Schriften, Freud’s
collected works. In each case the translated materials were checked against the
Studienausgabe and the original, 1905 version of Freud’s case, in order to
appropriately historicize both Freud’s own developments in thinking, and oth-
ers’ reactions to this text. For further discussion of these various editions I refer
readers to the recent collection Deconstructing Normativity? Re- reading
Freud’s 1905 “Three Essays,” edited by Philippe Van Haute and Herman