Love's Body and the Body of Love
On Norman O. Brown's Eschatological Hermaphrodite and the Darwinian Continuities of Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3640211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Edgar Bauer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 300-331 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2020.1819711 |
| PMID | 33021159 |
| OpenAlex | W3089929114 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
US-American philosopher Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was one of the very few twentieth-century intellectuals to situate hermaphroditism at the core of their work. Although Brown's publications became cult books of the then emerging protest subcultures and were eventually regarded as milestones in the history of Freudian revisionism, the reception of his views on hermaphroditism has been insubstantial. The present contribution focuses at first on Brown's attempt to supersede binary sexuality and its same-sex/other-sex combinatories by positing an ambit of hermaphroditic reconciliation that emerges from the depths of the unconscious, but is effectual only as an eschatological ideal. Against this backdrop, Brown's consequential neglect of Charles Darwin's universalization of corporeal hermaphroditism and of Magnus Hirschfeld's conception of human sexual intermediariness are analyzed and assessed
Biology · Cult · Darwinism · Epistemology · Hermaphrodite · Human sexuality · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Theology · Zoology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |