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A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual SciencesA Cartography of Appetites

A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences: A Cartography of Appetites [This chapter introduces readers to A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences, which examines key “moments” in the pathologisation of sexuality, and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern understandings of the problem of appetite. It examines how techniques of the patient case history, elixirs and devices, measurement, diagnostic manuals and pharmaceuticals were central to the medicalisation of sexual appetite. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical method that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, the chapter highlights the pronounced focus on questions of object choice in histories of sexuality while delineating an approach to the history of sexual appetite in psychiatric discourse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual SciencesA Cartography of Appetites

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-39422-6
Pages
1 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-39423-3_1
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[This chapter introduces readers to A Genealogy of Appetite in the Sexual Sciences, which examines key “moments” in the pathologisation of sexuality, and demonstrates how medical techniques assumed critical roles in shaping modern understandings of the problem of appetite. It examines how techniques of the patient case history, elixirs and devices, measurement, diagnostic manuals and pharmaceuticals were central to the medicalisation of sexual appetite. Histories of sexuality have predominantly focused on the emergence of sexual identities and categories of desire. They have marginalised questions of excess and lack, the appearance of a libido that dwindles or intensifies, which became a pathological object in Europe by the nineteenth century. Through a genealogical method that draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, the chapter highlights the pronounced focus on questions of object choice in histories of sexuality while delineating an approach to the history of sexual appetite in psychiatric discourse.]

Published: Mar 12, 2020

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