Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
by
Kathleen Frederickson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox...