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  Psychopathia Sexualis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Psychopathia Sexualis (book), a psychology book on sexuality by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychopathia_Sexualis   (112 words)

  
 PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During the same period when science was claiming dominion over childbirth (previously the work of midwives) and death (ending the tradition of funeral wakes at home), it argued that sexual behavior was governed by the brain and the spine, and was a scientific issue, not a spiritual one.
Psychopathia sexualis and essays written at the time by Krafft-Ebing and others, introduced to our vocabulary such words as heterosexual, homosexual, sadism, masochism and fetishism.
By the end of the film, Krafft-Ebing's great experiment has become compromised by ambition, greed and a hunger for power, and the viewer is left to contemplate the dubious motives that lurk behind the seemingly benevolent medical industry (in the years 1900 as well as 2000), an industry that thrives on paranoia and fear.
www.cinemaweb.com /psychopathia/about.html   (597 words)

  
 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 4, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous study of sexual perversity, and remains well-known for his coinage of the term sadism (after the Marquis de Sade).
He also coined the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partially autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman.
He was a popularizer of psychiatry, giving public lectures on the subject as well as theatrical demonstrations of the power of hypnotism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing   (791 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis
Krafft-Ebing found that, among the many manifestations of psychopathia, sexual deviance was routinely unexplored and merely dismissed as insanity.
Psychopathia Sexualis was intended as "a medico-forensic study." Krafft-Ebing presented the case histories' most sordid details in Latin "in order to exclude the lay reader."
Psychopathia Sexualis was much more than a guidebook to perversity, it was an important part of the scientific community's efforts to establish authority over matters of sexuality.
www.kino.com /psychopathia/history.html   (901 words)

  
 story in depth, 1886:  Krafft-Ebing Diagnoses "Degenerates"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Psychopathia Sexualis was a continuation of Krafft-Ebing's earlier work, but now applied to disorders of the sexual "instinct." The book uses the same method, and suffers from the same problems, as its predecessor.
Other critics complained that Psychopathia Sexualis was disorganized and confusing because it lacked an underlying theory to account for the phenomena it categorized, but Krafft-Ebing was either deaf to this criticism or incapable of responding to it.
Psychopathia Sexualis is a derivative, disorganized, and sometimes self-contradictory book, but it was the only book of its kind at the end of the 1800s.
www.gayhistory.com /rev2/events/1886.htm   (1826 words)

  
 Metroactive Stage | 'Psychopathia Sexualis'
Psychopathia Sexualis, now onstage at Actors Theatre in a production directed by David Lear, is actually a rather sweet-natured romantic comedy from John Patrick Shanley, the author of Moonstruck.
The plot of Psychopathia Sexualis turns on the plight of Arthur (played by Mike Reynolds), a hapless painter with an unnatural attachment to his father's argyle socks.
You could define a crowd pleaser as any show where an actor has to pull up his or her pants for the bow at the curtain call, and indeed, there are large stretches of Psychopathia Sexualis that strongly resemble the screwball comedies of old, albeit with a tad more sexual frankness.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.21.02/psycho-0247.html   (622 words)

  
 bloch.htm
But this factor alone is not sufficient to explain the appearance and genesis of unnatural expressions of the libido sexualis, since the same manifestations are observed among primitive peoples that lack any higher culture, and in fact still live in Stone Age conditions (certain Australian tribes).
With this in mind, the view of those researchers who assign to civilization the lead role in the etiology of the psychopathia sexualis must be regarded with suspicion from the start.
It cannot be denied that the aforementioned representatives of this view, who indeed include the founders of scientific research into the pyschopathia sexualis, have for the moment carried their view to victory, so that the opposing doctrine of the acquired-ness of most sexual anomalies has receded more into the background.
www.well.com /user/aquarius/bloch-aetiologie.htm   (3777 words)

  
 ShowMag.com
Psychopathia Sexualis, a comedy which first played in L.A. at the Mark Taper Forum, is also full of them.
Psychopathia Sexualis plays at the Zoo Theater, 1611 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood (323)460-4233.
There is one more performance of Psychopathia at 8 p.m.
www.showmag.com /theater/theater123.html   (517 words)

  
 Pioneer Press images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS: Lydia (LISA PAULSEN, foreground), is embraced by her pupil, Annabel (VERONIKA DUERR) in the 2006 film "Psychopathia Sexualis," directed by Bret Wood, a Kino International release.
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS: KRISTI CASEY (left) and DAVID WEBER enjoy bloodletting in the bedroom in the 2006 film "Psychopathia Sexualis," directed by Bret Wood, a Kino International Release.
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS: PATRICIA FRENCH as the prostitute "Antoinette" in the 2006 film "Psychopathia Sexualis," directed by Bret Wood, a Kino International release.
www.twoboots.com /pioneer/press   (1250 words)

  
 Homosexuality:A Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Psychopathia Sexualis was published in German in 1886.
It is cited in Grosskurth's biography (the manuscript belonging to a collection at the University of Bristol) as being a letter to Havelock Ellis, who Symonds was collaborating with on a work that would be similar to Psychopathia Sexualis.
I do not know if this word was bandied about privately in Symonds's correspondence with other homosexual men of the time, or if he plucked "homosexual" directly from Krafft-Ebbing's work, and was using it only in proper scientific discourse with a proper scientist.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E392M/lkb/homosexuality.htm   (290 words)

  
 Metroactive Stage | Psychopathia Sexualis
THE TITLE OF JOHN Patrick Shanley's Psychopathia Sexualis seems as sure a promise of depraved revelations as the next installment of The Jerry Springer Show, and although there is an element of "Quirky Men and the Women Who Love Them" in the play, it's actually a wonderful modern-day screwball comedy.
In Psychopathia Sexualis, nearly every scene reveals some secret held for fear of embarrassment or loss of pride.
Like Coward, Shanley pokes fun at our pretensions, and to a certain extent, Psychopathia Sexualis is a farce, one that affectionately mocks the human condition as a whole.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.18.99/psychopathiasex-9911.html   (554 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis, Arcade Publishing
This classic nineteenth-century work on so-called sexual deviation is the pioneering collection of case studies that catalogued and defined "perversion" from fetishism to homosexuality.
Intended as a scientific reference book, Psychopathia Sexualissparked a furor in its time, and the twelve editions of the book that were published before the author's death attest to the interest of those outside the psychiatric profession.
Although sometimes dated by the beliefs and state of knowledge of the time it was written, Psychopathia Sexualisis essential (and immensely entertaining) as one of the most important documents in humankind's modern effort to understand itself.
www.arcadepub.com /Book/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100920420   (249 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco "Psychopathia Sexualis" and "Woody and Me" - 4/11/1999
Psychopathia Sexualis knocked the socks off this reviewer while Woody and Me was a boring talky thesis on sexual harassment
The play was originally produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre in March, 1996 and subsequently by Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper in LA in May of the same year.
He can't complete "the act" with his beloved Lucille unless a certain pair of ancient argyle socks once belonging to his father are within his reach.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s19.html   (1092 words)

  
 The Origin of the word “Masochism”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While the later is the desire to cause pain and use force, the former is the wish to suffer pain and be subjected to force.
By masochism I understand a particular perversion of the psychical vita sexualis in which the individual affected, in sexual feeling and thought, is controlled by the idea of being completely and unconditionally subject to the will of a person of the opposite sex; of being treated by this person as a master, humiliated and abused.
This idea is coloured by lusting feeling; the masochist lives in fancies, in which he creates situations of this kind and often attempts to realize them.
homepage.newschool.edu /~schlemoj/imptopia/krafft-ebing.html   (517 words)

  
 Theatre Review - Psychopathia Sexualis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I'm no shrink, but my guess is that if your ability to perform in bed depends on the proximity of a pair of argyle socks, you've got a problem.
If you're unlucky, you wind up with a screwball psychoanalyst like his Dr. Block, who counsels you fruitlessly for years, leaving you dependent on an equallly ineffectual friend to save your hash in time for your wedding.
Psychopathia Sexualis runs weekends at the Grandel Theatre through November 8.
www.kdhx.org /reviews/psycho.html   (397 words)

  
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By the time he was 40, he has written, he was facing the classic mid-life crisis, overwhelmed by "emotional turmoil and maniacal self-examination." As a result, he began reading works of psychology, including Krafft-Ebing's landmark work, Psychopathia Sexualis, and the speculations of Carl Jung.
The result, Psychopathia Sexualis, opened in February, 1997 at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York.
Psychopathia Sexualis, by contrast, takes place in settings peopled by rich and sophisticated Manhattanites.
www.thepublictheatre.org /guides/9899_psychopathia_sexualis.html   (3242 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Psychopathia Sexualis, playwright John Patrick Shanley's rifle shot at what makes penis-bearers tick, couldn't have been more lacerating if Andrea Dworkin or Catherine McKinnon had penned it.
Shanley's take on the psychiatric science is only slightly more forgiving than his view of the slimy menace of masculinity.
Psychopathia Sexualis tries to have it both ways—to cut deep while tickling us with the wit of its insights and its characterizations—but can't quite pull it off.
www.citypaper.com /arts/printready.asp?id=4469   (497 words)

  
 from Ideas on Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Contrary to popular knowledge, the most famous expert on sex in those days was not Sigmund Freud, but Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), whose enduring fame rests on his book, Psychopathia Sexualis, first published in 1886.
For the first time in history, Psychopathia Sexualis offered people a catalogue of the countless ways -- other than the missionary position in heterosexual intercourse -- in which human beings could extract sexual pleasure from their bodies.
Prior to the publication of Psychopathia Sexualis, abnormal sexual acts were, literally, "unspeakable abominations," shoved under the carpet of human consciousness as bestial, unnatural, and sinful, and of course criminal as well.
www.szasz.com /iol6.html   (1100 words)

  
 Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
"John Patrick Shanley's PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS is a salty boulevard comedy with a bittersweet theme…Shanley's craft…is actually at high tide.
Shanley has written what on the surface is a deft boulevard comedy, but one with thought-provoking depths." —NY Magazine.
Arthur reclaims his socks (as each man must), and he and Lucille are married.
www.dramatists.com /cgi-bin/db/single.asp?index=0&key=2487   (327 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Psychopathia Sexualis to receive a rating.
Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text.
Among the cases are a sexually repressed man who discovers an unhealthy appetite for blood; a homosexual man who submits himself to a doctor who promises to 'cure' his condition; and a masochist who hires a pair of corseted prostitutes to enact a most peculiar performance.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/10006847-psychopathia_sexualis   (316 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Psychopathia sexualis, with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct; a medico-forensic ...
Find in a Library: Psychopathia sexualis, with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct; a medico-forensic study
Psychopathia sexualis, with especial reference to the antipathic sexual instinct; a medico-forensic study
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www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/f9ea9e32f7955e6c.html   (78 words)

  
 Keep your socks on   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hmmm, "Psychopathia Sexualis." Maybe that explains those Bill and Monica escapades.
For Arthur, the central character in "Psychopathia Sexualis," it's socks.
Gonzalez says the term "psychopathia sexualis" came from a 19th century psychoanalytic textbook that equated object fetishes to religious obsessions.
www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/cover/1999_Mar_12.ARTS12.html   (534 words)

  
 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Psychopathia Sexualis
Originally published in 1886, Psychopathia Sexualis was translated from the original German and continually updated until 1965.
Psychopathia Sexualis concerns itself with all manner of sexual abberations, including a number of case studies categorized under various sub-headings.
Under "Sexual Inclination Toward the Opposite Sex," we find an entry for Jack the Ripper listed as Case #17.
www.casebook.org /ripper_media/rps.sexualis.html   (363 words)

  
 The Makers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Makers have been to the crossroads and returned with 13 shining jewels reminiscent of The Velvet Underground, Stax records, Richard Hell and The Kinks, yet undeniably, Makers.
Recorded by Jack Endino and Mike Maker, "Psychopathia Sexualis" is a titillating torture-tonic of sex-mad soul music, betrayal, and degenerate guitar-lust.
This is music for abused children and tormented adults, the wild and the sexually damaged.
www.estrus.com /bands/Makers   (306 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis: Nymphomani :: by Dan Pop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Case 190: Miss L. [consisting of excerpts from Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (Vienna, 1886) and the Larry King interview with Monica Lewinsky aired January 3, 2000]
Miss L. Always nervous, eccentric, erotic, began coitus at the age of ten.
Slight degree of dropped uterus and prolapsed anus.
www.metameat.net /owlfarm/article.php3?backpage_011207_pope   (399 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis at Montgomery Theater
"Psychopathia Sexualis" February 15 — March 11, 2006.
“Psychopathia Sexualis” show sponsor — Moyer & Son, Inc.
A smart new comedy about men and their befuddlements and an unconventional shrink!
www.theatrealliance.org /news/2006/0202a.html   (265 words)

  
 Psychopathia Sexualis : Sexual Metamorphosis
At the time the passage above was written, people who felt trapped in the wrong gender automatically became case-studies.
His Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a pioneering collection of 237 case studies in sexual pathology, revolutionized the scientific understanding of sex, influencing Freud (a student of Krafft-Ebing's) and introducing the terms sadism, masochism, and fetishism.
In this excerpt, Case 129 is presented and is the autobiography of a patient who "feels like a woman in a man's form."
www.enotalone.com /article/4750.html   (2992 words)

  
 Remembering Krafft-Ebing
The public continued to devour this nonpictorial precursor to Playboy.
For the first time in history, Psychopathia Sexualis offered people a catalogue of the countless ways-other than the missionary position in heterosexual intercourse-in which human beings could extract sexual pleasure from their bodies.
This meant that the law, and hence society, could not turn its back on what were then - in a telling conflation of sin and sickness - called "perversions."
oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/szasz01.htm   (1080 words)

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