Diederik F Janssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 648900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diederik F Janssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diederik F |
| FAMILY NAME | Janssen |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSEN D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6679-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Premature Ejaculation in Western Medical History
Libido mechanica: Image and Object before Sexual Psychopathology
Proto-Endocrinological Theories of Masculinity/Femininity (1490–1904)
Monosexual/Plurisexual: A Concise History
Monosexuality and bisexuality (attraction to one and more than one gender/sex, respectively) are historical constructs, as are monomodal (e.g., gender/sex-based) and multimodal concepts of erotic attraction. I provide a brief outline of distinctions between single-gender and multi-gender attractions as they emerged in continental Europe. Nineteenth-century conceptualizations of sexual orientation in terms of gender-exclusivity were animated by me…
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts
Naming psychiatry: Apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800)
The term psychiatry ( Psychiatrie) was first used in 1800, in the early work of Leipzig Romantic natural philosopher and later neuroanatomist Karl Friedrich Burdach; it was a recherché reference to medical animism. This little-known instance of neologism by a young ambitious author invites a brief lexicological study of psychiatry as a specialty in search of its place among the medical specialties, methods and applications. The European historica…
Pediatrics: Naming a Medical Specialty (1721–1880)
Who Invented Gender Identity
Alfred Kind’s Canceled Co-Authorship of Hirschfeld’s Die Transvestiten (1910)
Melancholia Scytharum: The early modern psychiatry of transgender identification
Herodotus’s enigmatic Scythian theleia nousos/morbus femininus and its Hippocratic interpretation interested many early modern authors. Its seeming dimension of transgender identification invited various medico-psychological and psychiatric reflections, culminating in nosologist de Sauvages’ tentative 1731 term, melancholia Scytharum. This article identifies pertinent discussions and what turn out to have been entangled, tentative psychologizatio…
Psychology: Early print uses of the term by Pier Nicola Castellani (1525) and Gerhard Synellius (1525)
We identify the putatively earliest extant print source of the neoclassical term psychologia, long presumed to have been a 1575 work, as two 1525 works, one by Pier Nicola Castellani and another by Gerhard Synellius. We provide a history of pertinent etymology and introduce the new sources. The full paragraph containing two uses of the term by Castellani is included in translation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Puer barbatus: Precocious Puberty in Early Modern Medicine
During early modernity, medico-legal concerns with timing puberty gave way to physiological and medical-hygienic concerns with pubertal timing. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medical-jurisprudential tracts isolated rare cases of conception before the legal marriage age. Scattered reports of “monstrously” early menarche and “prodigious” male puberty were offered from the latter half of the seventeenth century. Tied to excess heat, moisture, pl…
Homosexual/Heterosexual: First Print Uses of the Terms by Daniel von Kászony (1868-1871)
Printed use of the term heterosexuality, as juxtaposed to homosexuality, may be dated to 1871. The German noun pairs Heterosexualität/Homosexualität and adjective pair heterosexuelle/homosexuelle, appeared in two 1871 nonfiction works by hack writer Daniel von Kászony (1813-1886), picking up on Károly Mária Kertbeny's terminology. Kertbeny juxtaposed heterosexual-homosexual in 1868 correspondence but refrained from using the former term in his tw…
From Libidines nefandæ to sexual perversions
A conceptual evolution is traceable from early modern classifications of libido nefanda (execrable lust) to early nineteenth-century allusions to ‘perversion of the sexual instinct’, via pluralizing notions of coitus nefandus/sodomiticus in Martin Schurig’s work, and of sodomia impropria in seventeenth- through late eighteenth-century legal medicine. Johann Valentin Müller’s early breakdown of various unnatural penchants seemingly inspired simila…
From corruption to perversion: Sexually explicit imagery, forensic medicine, and sexual psychopathology (1862–1927)
Inventories of commercial imagery considered obscene or pornographic were first seen in the latter half of the 1900s, in the form of grass-roots initiatives by European public morality protectors Ludwig Kemmer, Louis Comte, and Comte’s disciple Émile Pourésy. Research became a coordinated exercise in Germany in the 1920s, led by Berlin detective superintendent Detloff von Behr. These hostile inventories speak to the practical historical interrela…
On the different Species of Phobia’ and ‘On the different Species of Mania’ (1786): From popular furies to mental disorders in America
Benjamin Rush's twin 1786 letters on the different species of phobia and mania sit at an extended historical juncture at which an early modern quasi-medical troping of mental disorder in American social commentary sobered up to mental medicine. The letters' satirical drive hinged on a perennial problem still occupying George Beard almost a century onward: which idiosyncratic trepidation or ill-grounded idea warranted the nomination of national an…
Transgenderism Before Gender: Nosology from the Sixteenth Through Mid-Twentieth Century
Sex/Gender: Did John Money Borrow the Distinction from Leland Earl Hinsie
Rape of the lock: Note on nineteenth-century hair fetishists
The ostensibly bizarre crime of braid-cutting invited occasional alienist inferences from the late 1850s onwards, until it entered mid-1880s police profiles and forensic-psychiatric taxonomies as a corollary of perversion, specifically sadism and fetishism. Cases were rare, but were reported as late as the mid-1930s and enduringly cited as encompassing a staple variety of fetishism. This note briefly reconstructs entries in German, French and Eng…
Cultural Differences in Sexual Socialization
Uranismus complicatus: Scientific-Humanitarian Disentanglements of Gender and Age Attractions
Voyeuristic Disorder”: Etymological and Historical Note
Know Thy Gender: Etymological Primer
Frotteuristic Disorder”: Etymological and Historical Note
Telephone Scatologia”: Onomasiological and Historical Note
Discipline, Suppress, or Kill: From “Ages of Man” to Masculine Temporalities
Scholars across disciplines operationalize masculinity as a cultural construct internally complicated by its multiplex and divisive anchoring to life phases. This critical review essay examines various dimensions of this internal division by looking at sociological, political, historical as well as comparative, social, psychological, and linguistic anthropologists' theorizing of maturity and gender as interdependent cultural foci. It reviews Cart…
Who Invented Gender Identity
Know Thy Gender: Etymological Primer
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: First Theorist of Erotic Age Orientation
The nomination of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) as the first theorist of homosexuality may be placed in the oblique light of his eligibility for the nomination as the first theorist of erotic age orientation. In Ulrichs's pamphlets, "man-manly" homosexuality emerged as a particular age orientation, with a subsequent typological breakdown that, importantly, blended gender orientation and age orientation. Into the early 20th century, erotic age…
Monosexual/Plurisexual: A Concise History
Monosexuality and bisexuality (attraction to one and more than one gender/sex, respectively) are historical constructs, as are monomodal (e.g., gender/sex-based) and multimodal concepts of erotic attraction. I provide a brief outline of distinctions between single-gender and multi-gender attractions as they emerged in continental Europe. Nineteenth-century conceptualizations of sexual orientation in terms of gender-exclusivity were animated by me…
Where’ ‘boys’ ‘are’: Co-constructions of maturities-genders-bodies-spaces
This paper is concerned with maturities, genders, spaces, and bodies as historicizable co-constructs, pluralized rubrics and gradients that emerge and function as interdependent ideas. This view allows reflection on nuances between children, boys, men, boyhood, and masculinities as anchors for geographic inquiry. Diverse contexts are reviewed with an eye on mutual if mutable reciprocities between ideas of gender and maturity, and between gender/m…
Life Course Staging as Cultural and Subjective Practice: Review, Critique, and Theoretical Possibilities
This paper identifies and critically assesses various research approaches to subjective and cultural-historical notions of life stages through the lens of comparative-cultural, psychometric, discursive psychological and ethnographic perspectives. Included is an overview of 48 studies of subjective attributions of life stages (1984—2007) covering 14 national settings, with a discussion of their limitations. Possibilities for cross-fertilizing crit…
Re-Queering Queer Youth Development: A Post-Developmental Approach to Childhood and Pedagogy
Contemporary reflection on queer-radical and queer-deconstructionist curricula has only marginally included a radical deconstruction of the principle of curricula itself. This article explores this “hidden discourse” by referencing the idea of curricular subjectivity and proposes a contextualizing perspective on the politicized interplay between psychogenetic (“developmental”) and socio-genetic (historical) notions of the “queer.” Taking the noti…
First Stirrings: Cultural Notes on Orgasm, Ejaculation, and Wet Dreams
Both the findings and the limitations of numeric milestone research in sexology have a bearing on the pedagogical status of pleasure, as well as the cultural underpinnings of the notion of a psychosexual milestone. An overview is offered of international data pertaining to the chronology of three "milestones" in sexual autobiography: first orgasm (orgasmarche), first ejaculation (oigarche), and first wet dream (nocturnal emission). Methodological…
Psychology: Early print uses of the term by Pier Nicola Castellani (1525) and Gerhard Synellius (1525)
We identify the putatively earliest extant print source of the neoclassical term psychologia, long presumed to have been a 1575 work, as two 1525 works, one by Pier Nicola Castellani and another by Gerhard Synellius. We provide a history of pertinent etymology and introduce the new sources. The full paragraph containing two uses of the term by Castellani is included in translation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Homosexual/Heterosexual: First Print Uses of the Terms by Daniel von Kászony (1868-1871)
Printed use of the term heterosexuality, as juxtaposed to homosexuality, may be dated to 1871. The German noun pairs Heterosexualität/Homosexualität and adjective pair heterosexuelle/homosexuelle, appeared in two 1871 nonfiction works by hack writer Daniel von Kászony (1813-1886), picking up on Károly Mária Kertbeny's terminology. Kertbeny juxtaposed heterosexual-homosexual in 1868 correspondence but refrained from using the former term in his tw…
Sex/Gender: Did John Money Borrow the Distinction from Leland Earl Hinsie
Uranismus complicatus: Scientific-Humanitarian Disentanglements of Gender and Age Attractions
Chronophilia”: Appreciating 150 Years of Puzzle-Solving
Age-Stratifying Homosexualities in the Social Sciences
First Love: A Case Study in Quantitative Appropriation of Social Concepts
Peer love is a highly invested autobiographical marker, and its scientific ascent can be studied in terms of its literature’s motives, stated objectives, exclusions, and delimitations. In this article an overview of numeric and selected ethnographic data on the timing of “first love” is presented, to inform an assessment of the ontological underpinnings of milestone research common to quantitative sociology and developmental psychology. Complicat…
How to “Ascertain” Paraphilia? An Etymological Hint
Hebephilia Plethysmographica: A Partial Rejoinder to Blanchard et al. (2008)
Picturing Sex Education: Notes on the politics of visual stratification
This paper addresses the scarcity of research on depictions and layout in sex education materials. It is argued that pictures and layout can inform an analysis of social stratification based on visual access. This process of social organization is located using four theoretical models. However these models do not lend themselves to a close reading of graphical strategies. To illustrate how pictures operate, three European works are subjected to a…
First Stirrings: Cultural Notes on Orgasm, Ejaculation, and Wet Dreams
Both the findings and the limitations of numeric milestone research in sexology have a bearing on the pedagogical status of pleasure, as well as the cultural underpinnings of the notion of a psychosexual milestone. An overview is offered of international data pertaining to the chronology of three "milestones" in sexual autobiography: first orgasm (orgasmarche), first ejaculation (oigarche), and first wet dream (nocturnal emission). Methodological…
Re-Queering Queer Youth Development: A Post-Developmental Approach to Childhood and Pedagogy
Contemporary reflection on queer-radical and queer-deconstructionist curricula has only marginally included a radical deconstruction of the principle of curricula itself. This article explores this “hidden discourse” by referencing the idea of curricular subjectivity and proposes a contextualizing perspective on the politicized interplay between psychogenetic (“developmental”) and socio-genetic (historical) notions of the “queer.” Taking the noti…
Discipline, Suppress, or Kill: From “Ages of Man” to Masculine Temporalities
Scholars across disciplines operationalize masculinity as a cultural construct internally complicated by its multiplex and divisive anchoring to life phases. This critical review essay examines various dimensions of this internal division by looking at sociological, political, historical as well as comparative, social, psychological, and linguistic anthropologists' theorizing of maturity and gender as interdependent cultural foci. It reviews Cart…
Where’ ‘boys’ ‘are’: Co-constructions of maturities-genders-bodies-spaces
This paper is concerned with maturities, genders, spaces, and bodies as historicizable co-constructs, pluralized rubrics and gradients that emerge and function as interdependent ideas. This view allows reflection on nuances between children, boys, men, boyhood, and masculinities as anchors for geographic inquiry. Diverse contexts are reviewed with an eye on mutual if mutable reciprocities between ideas of gender and maturity, and between gender/m…
Life Course Staging as Cultural and Subjective Practice: Review, Critique, and Theoretical Possibilities
This paper identifies and critically assesses various research approaches to subjective and cultural-historical notions of life stages through the lens of comparative-cultural, psychometric, discursive psychological and ethnographic perspectives. Included is an overview of 48 studies of subjective attributions of life stages (1984—2007) covering 14 national settings, with a discussion of their limitations. Possibilities for cross-fertilizing crit…
Sex as Development: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Critical Inquiry
Hebephilia Plethysmographica: A Partial Rejoinder to Blanchard et al. (2008)
The semiotic predicament of developmental psychology
Alcibiades the Schoolboy Redux, or the Impossibility of Childhood Sexuality
The modern intrigue of “childhood sexuality” is considered a transcript of the incest taboo: a formulaic stipulation of social ungrammaticality. Appeals to empirical research in attempts to negotiate with this stipulated impossibility need to consider that the empirical imaginary of “sexuality” is precisely the modern face to taboo: a congratulatory “explanation” of social provisos that works to conscribe Child to Family, Community, and Nation. C…
Everybody's family romance: Reading incest in neoliberal America by Harkins, Gillian
Is “Pedophilia” a Paraphrase of the Incest Taboo? Apropos: Are the Corollaries of Taboo Offered Up As Reasons For It
Whatever Happened to the Recruit
Mark D. Jordan's book Recruiting Young Love (2011) traces the figure of the impressionable adolescent that dominates the rhetorical weaponry of various 20th-century American religious forums on “the homosexuality debate.” The book invites reflection on the tropes of child harm and “developmental vulnerability” ubiquitously paraphrased across not only fundamentalist antigay, but very much mainstream, and cross-culturally attested, problematization…
How to “Ascertain” Paraphilia? An Etymological Hint
First Love: A Case Study in Quantitative Appropriation of Social Concepts
Peer love is a highly invested autobiographical marker, and its scientific ascent can be studied in terms of its literature’s motives, stated objectives, exclusions, and delimitations. In this article an overview of numeric and selected ethnographic data on the timing of “first love” is presented, to inform an assessment of the ontological underpinnings of milestone research common to quantitative sociology and developmental psychology. Complicat…
Age-Stratifying Homosexualities in the Social Sciences
Psychosexual Development Disorders”: Calling and Recalling for Declassification
Sexual Socialization
Over the course of the twentieth century the concept of sexual socialization has been theory driven but also increasingly problem driven. This may reflect the progressive politicization of the myriad aspects of “young sexualities,” and the way they have proven vulnerable, and thus indexical, to shifting social anxieties. Few canonical social theorists are in fact noted for their focus on sexual socialization. Most theoretical accounts either pred…
Chronophilia”: Appreciating 150 Years of Puzzle-Solving
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: First Theorist of Erotic Age Orientation
The nomination of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) as the first theorist of homosexuality may be placed in the oblique light of his eligibility for the nomination as the first theorist of erotic age orientation. In Ulrichs's pamphlets, "man-manly" homosexuality emerged as a particular age orientation, with a subsequent typological breakdown that, importantly, blended gender orientation and age orientation. Into the early 20th century, erotic age…
Cultural Differences in Sexual Socialization
Uranismus complicatus: Scientific-Humanitarian Disentanglements of Gender and Age Attractions
Voyeuristic Disorder”: Etymological and Historical Note
Know Thy Gender: Etymological Primer
Frotteuristic Disorder”: Etymological and Historical Note
Psychology (36 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Psychoanalysis (19 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sexual behavior (14 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (13 works) · Public health (13 works)