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Conclusion to A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Lang, Birgit Damousi, Joy Lewis, Alison
Lang, Birgit
Damousi, Joy
Lewis, Alison
Abstract
[Extract] This volume delineates the changing forms of the case study across disciplines and decades, mapping circuits of knowledge through which the sexed and gendered human subject became a persistently urgent topic of enquiry in the Western world.A History of the Case Study presents an analysis of case writing about the human subject from a critical juncture in its formation in the second half of the nineteenth century, when, as claimed by Michel Foucault, sexuality came to be regarded as a conceptual part of human nature. According to Foucault’s famous dictum, notions of sexuality ‘organized sex as a “fictitious unity”’...
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2017
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Book chapter
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A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature
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215-220
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ACU Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open access
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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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