Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

By: Anna Katharina Schaffner

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The second half of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century saw a growing preoccupation with sexual perversion: in particular homosexuality, sadism, masochism, fetishism, voyeurism and exhibitionism. Charting the intellectual history of the construction of the perversions in German, French and English sexology in this period, Anna Schaffner explores the decisive role played by literary representations of deviant sexualities in the formation of sexological knowledge. Just as sexologists, including Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Alfred Binet, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch and Sigmund Freud, relied upon the literary, so major modernist writers such as Georges Bataille, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust were in turn influenced by sexological conceptions. Focusing on the interdisciplinary exchanges between literature and sexology, Schaffner illuminates the pivotal role these modernists played in re-evaluating the perversions and paving the way for the transformation of the idea of sexual deviance into that of sexual difference.

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Series Editor's Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Introduction	p. 1
From Sinner to Patient: Medicalizing the Perverse	p. 1
Perverse Modernity and the Modern Perversions	p. 5
The Construction of the Perversions in the Scientia Sexualis	p. 18
Revalorizing Perversions and Their Literary Representations	p. 23
The Perversions in Sexology
The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing	p. 33
Masturbation and Phantasia Morbosa	p. 33
Degeneration Theory: Perverse Evolution	p. 43
Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis	p. 45
On the Ramifications of Factualizing Fiction	p. 57
The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism	p. 63
The Biological Turn: Michéa, Magnan and Charcot	p. 63
The Classificatory Imperative and the Anal Sex Taboo	p. 73
Alfred Binet's Fetishisms and the Discovery of Childhood	p. 79
Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence	p. 89
Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion and Erotic Symbolism	p. 89
Sex, Social Reform and the Utopian Impulse: Carpenter and Lawrence	p. 103
The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn	p. 112
'Per scientiam ad justiciam': Magnus Hirschfeld and the Zwischenstufentheorie	p. 112
Albert Moll and the Discharge and Relationship Drives	p. 121
Sade as Sexologist: Iwan Bloch and the Anthropological Turn	p. 126
Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind	p. 137
Freud and Perversion: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality	p. 137
Freud and Perversion after Three Essays	p. 145
Freud and Literature	p. 152
Vacillations between Science and Fiction	p. 160
Language, Desire and the Perversions as Tropes	p. 163
The Perversions in Modernist Literature
Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime	p. 169
On the Double Function of Modernist Representations of the Perversions	p. 169
Psychopathia Sexualis and Buddenbrooks: Death, Decay and the Advent of the Artist	p. 173
Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence	p. 182
'Another Kind of Love' and Its Failure	p. 182
Overcoming Sado-Masochistic Modernity	p. 188
Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil	p. 198
Proust, Inversion and Sexology	p. 198
Beyond Cruelty, or the Art of Sadism	p. 204
Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering	p. 218
Managing the Menace: Masochism as a Psychological Survival Strategy	p. 218
Kafka's Perverse Style	p. 228
Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression	p. 236
The Quest for Continuity: Transgression, Eroticism and Death	p. 236
Story of the Eye and the Fetishization of the Signifier	p. 240
Conclusion	p. 254
Modernism vs. Modernity Revisited	p. 254
Literature, Language, Desire: Writing the Perverse as a Performative Act	p. 256
Perversion Today	p. 259
Notes	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 298
Index	p. 312
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