Sex and the anarchist unconscious

A brief history

Bibliographic Data

ID19004101
AuthorsJesse Cohn (0000-0003-2255-5616, Purdue University Northwest, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume13
Issue4
Pages413-431
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363460710370649
OpenAlexW2086575201
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

‘We need form, not formlessness!’ In Gustav Landauer’s plaintive cry echoes a century-old controversy among the most singular minds of an entire generation of anarchists — Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam, Margarethe Hardegger — over sexuality and the ‘new science’ of psychoanalysis. At stake in the dispute are questions that continue to haunt anarchist thought and practice in the 21st century: What ‘forms’ can and ought libertarian sexual culture take? What constitutes a libertarian politics of marriage and the family? Does psychoanalysis constitute a complement to the anarchist tradition, a crucial supplement to its logic, or a perilous substitute

Epistemology · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology

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