The Invention of Sadism? The Limits of Neologisms in the History of Sexuality

Moore, A

The Invention of Sadism? The Limits of Neologisms in the History of Sexuality

Moore, A

Permalink

Publisher:: Sage
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sexualities, 2009, 12 (4), pp. 489 - 506
Issue Date:: 2009-01

Closed Access

	Filename	Description	Size
	2008008596OK.pdf		254.6 kB		View/Open

Copyright Clearance Process

Recently Added
In Progress
Closed Access

This item is closed access and not available.

Full metadata record

Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Moore, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sexualities, 2009, 12 (4), pp. 489 - 506	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1363-4607	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11832
dc.description.abstract	How important is a new word for the development of newly imagined sexual pathology? In the case of the neologism 'sadism' at the fin de siècle, this invention was strangely both pivotal and incidental. Tracking sexual concepts, as Laqueur does for masturbation, requires that the neologisms invented at precise historic moments be both recontextualized in relation to earlier discourses, and problematized as stable constructs in their ongoing development. This article is a genealogical sketch of this kind in relation to 'sadism', as part of a larger inquiry into how this sexual construct became available to the Frankfurt School philosophers and as an explanation for Nazi genocidal cruelty.	en_US
dc.publisher	Sage	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Sexualities	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.title	The Invention of Sadism? The Limits of Neologisms in the History of Sexuality	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	12	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
utslib.for	1699 Other Studies in Human Society	en_US
utslib.for	1117 Public Health and Health Services	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.volume	12	en_US

Abstract:

How important is a new word for the development of newly imagined sexual pathology? In the case of the neologism 'sadism' at the fin de siècle, this invention was strangely both pivotal and incidental. Tracking sexual concepts, as Laqueur does for masturbation, requires that the neologisms invented at precise historic moments be both recontextualized in relation to earlier discourses, and problematized as stable constructs in their ongoing development. This article is a genealogical sketch of this kind in relation to 'sadism', as part of a larger inquiry into how this sexual construct became available to the Frankfurt School philosophers and as an explanation for Nazi genocidal cruelty.

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:

http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11832