The aim of this article is to understand an important passage in the history of the sciences of the psyche: starting from the psychiatric problematization - and the consequent emergence - of the concept and the object called 'sexuality' in the second half of the 19(th) century, it attempts to show a series of continuities and discontinuities between this kind of reasoning and the birth of psychoanalysis in the first years of the 20(th) century. The particular focus is therefore directed on two texts: Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis and Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The argument runs along three intertwined axes: (1) an historico-epistemological analysis of the concepts and their transformations in the field of the science of sexuality; (2) an analysis of the power relationships between patients and physicians; and (3) an account of the psychiatric technologies of the self that have as an effect the emergence of new forms of 'objective' knowledge of the subject. The broader goal is to trace a map of the simultaneous and correlate coming into being and transformations both of new forms of objects and of new forms of subjects through the mediation of scientific concepts and techniques.

Savoia P. (2010). Sexual science and self-narrative: Epistemology and narrative technologies of the self between krafft-ebing and freud. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 23(5), 17-41 [10.1177/0952695110375040].

Sexual science and self-narrative: Epistemology and narrative technologies of the self between krafft-ebing and freud

Savoia P.
2010

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The aim of this article is to understand an important passage in the history of the sciences of the psyche: starting from the psychiatric problematization - and the consequent emergence - of the concept and the object called 'sexuality' in the second half of the 19(th) century, it attempts to show a series of continuities and discontinuities between this kind of reasoning and the birth of psychoanalysis in the first years of the 20(th) century. The particular focus is therefore directed on two texts: Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis and Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The argument runs along three intertwined axes: (1) an historico-epistemological analysis of the concepts and their transformations in the field of the science of sexuality; (2) an analysis of the power relationships between patients and physicians; and (3) an account of the psychiatric technologies of the self that have as an effect the emergence of new forms of 'objective' knowledge of the subject. The broader goal is to trace a map of the simultaneous and correlate coming into being and transformations both of new forms of objects and of new forms of subjects through the mediation of scientific concepts and techniques.
2010
Savoia P. (2010). Sexual science and self-narrative: Epistemology and narrative technologies of the self between krafft-ebing and freud. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 23(5), 17-41 [10.1177/0952695110375040].
Savoia P.
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