Richard von Krafft-Ebing - Psychopathia sexualismus

1968, English, Richard von Krafft-Ebing,

"Psychopathia sexualismus" is the English language version of "Psychopathia sexualismus" published in 1886 by Richard von Krafft-Ebing.

Psychopathia Sexualis, written by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in 1886, is a pioneering work in the field of sexual pathology. This clinical-forensic study delves into a wide range of paraphilias and specifically focuses on male homosexuality and bisexuality - referred to as the “antipathetic sexual instinct” in the subtitle. 

Crossdressing in the modern sense appeared with Karl Heinrich Ulrich as early as 1868, and Carl Westphal used the term "contrary sexual feeling" in 1870, although not yet differentiated from so-called uranism. Richard von Krafft-Ebing then published the first edition of "Psychopathia sexualismus" in 1886, which went through 17 editions. There he uses the term “Metamorphosis sexualis paranoica” (sex change madness).

"Love is the repression of society. And it fails because of the inevitable return of the repressed. Unification under one condition: unrecognizability. A face that is beautiful, but it doesn't express anything. The harmony of social nothingness, where, for a few moments at least, the interests that make everything uselessly useful disappear. All real love is, at least for this highest moment, antisocial. If it were not in the ordinary case, even in marriage, we could not speak of love. Love is the principle of the completely unprincipled – as social absurdity. Society knows only interests, true and false.

Thus anonymous love is ahead of society, as the instinct is before all society, and as true love comes after all society. Love consciously makes use of taboos. It breaks through all formulas of understanding in order to reach that degree of understanding that still grants pleasure. Perversion, then, is not an attempt at impossible perverse combinations, but the debauchery of the social principle, a break with the sobering presence of the ordinary." (Peter Erlach)

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