04152nam 2200937 450 991078676450332120230124191045.00-8232-6252-90-8232-6639-70-8232-6254-50-8232-6255-310.1515/9780823262540(CKB)3710000000216396(EBL)3239914(SSID)ssj0001292729(PQKBManifestationID)11815916(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292729(PQKBWorkID)11284071(PQKB)10601549(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111258(MiAaPQ)EBC4803893(MiAaPQ)EBC3239914(OCoLC)890507577(MdBmJHUP)muse37917(DE-B1597)555398(DE-B1597)9780823262540(Au-PeEL)EBL3239914(CaPaEBR)ebr10904479(CaONFJC)MIL727792(OCoLC)923764490(OCoLC)889302780(MiAaPQ)EBC1961781(Au-PeEL)EBL1961781(EXLCZ)99371000000021639620140814h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe ploy of instinct Victorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance /Kathleen FredericksonFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (234 p.)Forms of LivingDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-96510-2 0-8232-6251-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Reading Like an Animal --2. The Case of Sexology at Work --3. Freud’s Australia --4. Angel in the Big House --Coda --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIt is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct’s deployment in conceptualizing governmentality. Instinct’s domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and “savages” to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of “progress” and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness. This shift in instinct’s appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis.Forms of living.InstinctHistory19th centurySexGreat BritainHistory19th centuryScienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literature19th centuryGreat BritainCivilization19th centuryInstinct.Nature.Science.Sexuality.Victorian.anthropology.pornography.psychoanalysis.sexology.suffragettes.InstinctHistorySexHistoryScienceHistoryEnglish literature156Frederickson Kathleen1549109MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786764503321The ploy of instinct3806743UNINA