A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature

A History of the Case Study Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature

This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences. It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siecle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of W...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lang, Birgit (Lecturer), author (author), Lewis, Alison, 1958- author, Damousi, Joy, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2017
Manchester : 2017.
Subjects:
Sexology.
Psychoanalysis.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Case method.
Psychoanalysis > Case studies.
Sexology > Case studies.
Humanities > Case studies > History.
Sociology > Case studies > History.
Case method > History.
History.
Case studies.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426079606719
Table of Contents:
  • The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz (1870) / Birgit Lang
  • Fin-de-siecle investigations of the 'creative genius' in psychiatry and psychoanalysis / Birgit Lang
  • 'Writing back': literary satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) / Birgit Lang
  • Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal / Birgit Lang
  • Alfred Döblin's literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany / Alison Lewis
  • Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America / Joy Damousi
  • Conclusion / Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis.

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