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- W3102523756 abstract "As argued in chapter 4, masturbatory insanity was closely linked to male identity and contemporary notions of masculinity. An additional factor contributing to the obsessive focus of medical practitioners on masturbation was the usefulness of the concept of masturbatory illness to the professional interests and aspirations of medicine and of alienists in particular, a group who embraced the notion of masturbatory illness with special fervor. According to Gilbert, the masturbation diagnosis partly derived from a gap between the “prestige and skill level” of the medical profession. This disjuncture drove doctors “to explain diseases of which they had inadequate knowledge in terms of the moral feelings of their patients.” The issue for psychiatry, this chapter argues, was not so much a gap between prestige and knowledge as the use of a new type of knowledge to enhance the prestige of mental medicine. For it is surely not coincidental that the frenzy over masturbatory insanity coincided with the period in which a nascent psychiatry was struggling to establish itself as a legitimate medical specialty. The notion of masturbatory illness was also, as Foucault has pointed out, connected with the power relationships of nineteenth-century institutions, such as the school, the army, and the insane asylum. The following case study of Johann A., a single, thirty-five-year-old farm laborer and former soldier, shows the role played by the institutions of the army and the insane asylum in masturbatory insanity. It also suggests how masturbation could play a crucial role in the expansion and legitimation of psychiatric expertise through the insertion of a discourse of sexual pathology into areas of behavior long viewed and treated as disciplinary or criminal matters. It did this by providing the scientific basis for the diagnosis of illness in ambiguous cases, where distinctions between delinquency and illness were unclear. The use of the masturbation diagnosis for disciplining male delinquency varied, both institutionally and culturally, by social class. The second part of the chapter explores the different ways that male masturbatory insanity was coded in, and experienced by, lower- and middle-class men." @default.
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- W3102523756 title "Masturbatory Insanity and Delinquency" @default.
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