ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest Taboo, Hyperesthesia, Lust Murder
29 Oct 2017
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Clinician in psychiatric asylums, collected and categorized case stories on human eexual behaviour. Sexual activity for reasons other than reproduction as perversion of the sex drive. "medico-forensic study" of "psycho-pathological manifestations of sexual life" Defining hyperaesthesia (exaggerated sexual instinct), anaesthesia (absence of sexual instinct), and paraesthesia (perversion of sexual instinct) as sub-types of cerebral neurosis. What krafft-ebing describes as ab-normal is now not in the present. Classifying homosexuality, bisexuality, impotence, masturbation, paedophilia, necrophilia, "hander kerchief fetishism", or lust-murder as psychopathologies. Oedipus complex, incest taboo, penis envy, castration anxiety, libido vs. death drive, perversion, bestiality, fetish. Based on idea of society repressing human desires that contradict its social norms and values social norms and values. Key psychological condition (and challenge) across human societies: controlling sexual behaviour as prerequisite to upholding social order. Society falls apart without rules restricting sexual intercourse (freud) Connected to, e. g. , christian morality which considers sexuality (both.
