LEADER 04152nam 2200937 450 001 9910786764503321 005 20230124191045.0 010 $a0-8232-6252-9 010 $a0-8232-6639-7 010 $a0-8232-6254-5 010 $a0-8232-6255-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823262540 035 $a(CKB)3710000000216396 035 $a(EBL)3239914 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001292729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11815916 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11284071 035 $a(PQKB)10601549 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803893 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239914 035 $a(OCoLC)890507577 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37917 035 $a(DE-B1597)555398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823262540 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904479 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727792 035 $a(OCoLC)923764490 035 $a(OCoLC)889302780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1961781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1961781 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000216396 100 $a20140814h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ploy of instinct $eVictorian sciences of nature and sexuality in liberal governance /$fKathleen Frederickson 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 225 1 $aForms of Living 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-96510-2 311 0 $a0-8232-6251-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Reading Like an Animal --$t2. The Case of Sexology at Work --$t3. Freud?s Australia --$t4. Angel in the Big House --$tCoda --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIt is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct?s deployment in conceptualizing governmentality. Instinct?s domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and ?savages? to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of ?progress? and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness. This shift in instinct?s appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis. 410 0$aForms of living. 606 $aInstinct$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y19th century 610 $aInstinct. 610 $aNature. 610 $aScience. 610 $aSexuality. 610 $aVictorian. 610 $aanthropology. 610 $apornography. 610 $apsychoanalysis. 610 $asexology. 610 $asuffragettes. 615 0$aInstinct$xHistory 615 0$aSex$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature 676 $a156 700 $aFrederickson$b Kathleen$01549109 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786764503321 996 $aThe ploy of instinct$93806743 997 $aUNINA