PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Magnus Hirschfeld, Psychosexual Development, Sexology
15 Dec 2018
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Sexual reproduction and diversity of species: organisms that don"t reach out beyond themselves die. Survival value of sex: freud, tried to apply somewhat of a scientific method, whole theory based on sexuality, viennese physical. Father of psycho-dynamic theory: comprehensive theory of human development and human nature. Lifespan theory, personality is fixed by about 18 but the effects of that carry on: major contributions. Sexual reproduction & survival >> libido & survival of ego in an individual. Zeitgeist = people at the same time, in different places, thinking along the same lines: both talking about survival, one about survival of species, other about survival of ego within individual, richard von krafft-ebing (1840-1902, wrote psychopathia sexualis. Focused on atypical sexualities, compared what is normal to what is not Sadism, masochism, fetishism, and homosexuality: masturbation caused all sexual deviations, magnus hirschfeld (1868-1935, german physician, advocate for sexual minorities, did not classify homosexuality as a pathology (it is diversity!)
