Echoes of Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis in Scientific Periodicals: Sexual and Mental Pathology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century Medical Discourse

This essay proposes a corpus-based terminological analysis of the language of moral decadence, sexual deviance and mental degeneration introduced and/or popularised by Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis. It also investigates the resonance that this domain-specific terminology may have...

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Main Author: Annalisa Federici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2025-04-01
Series:Lea
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/16030
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