GERMAN

Sexualpsychologie und Volkspsychologie: Eine epikritische Studie zum Harden-Prozess

By Magnus Hirschfeld

Book information

Publisher
Georg H. Wigand
Year
1908
Google Books ID
ZhOSNAAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL47929656M
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20018696 bytes)
Pages
32\44
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Politics
Library
digi-hub
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-04-19 12:39:35
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Description

The Harden trials inspired Hirschfeld to publish a study, Sexualpsychologie und Volkspsychologie (Sexual psychology and national psychology), which analyzed in more detail what we today call homophobia. In it he claimed that his own experiences of attack had prompted him to study how hatred against groups of people is instilled in the wider public. According to the study, anti-homosexual attitudes are generated by “mass suggestion,” or the production and perpetuation of antihomosexuality discourse in the media.98 Sexualpsychologie und Volkspsychologie coincided with sociologists such as Georg Simmel beginning to analyze the psychology of the masses, especially in relation to urban life. Hirschfeld’s book, which cites his defamation by the press as an example of how such negative suggestion is executed, expanded the sociological scholarship to include a critique of antihomosexual attitudes. —Heike Bauer: The Hirschfeld Archives

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