Sexual science and self-narrative: Epistemology and narrative technologies of the self between krafft-ebing and freud

History of the Human Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 17-41

  Savoia, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

concepts; objectivity; psychoanalysis; sexuality; technologies of the self

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SELF CONCEPT; SEXOLOGY; SEXUALITY;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PUBLICATIONS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXOLOGY; SEXUALITY;

EID: 78650235233     PISSN: 09526951     EISSN: 1461720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952695110375040     Document Type: Article

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