001480653 000__ 04143nam\a22010215i\4500 001480653 001__ 1480653 001480653 003__ DE-B1597 001480653 005__ 20231026083043.0 001480653 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480653 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480653 008__ 231026t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480653 020__ $$a9780823262540 001480653 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823262540$$2doi 001480653 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555398 001480653 035__ $$a(OCoLC)889302780 001480653 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480653 0410_ $$aeng 001480653 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480653 072_7 $$aLIT004120$$2bisacsh 001480653 08204 $$a156$$223 001480653 1001_ $$aFrederickson, Kathleen,$$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480653 24514 $$aThe Ploy of Instinct :$$bVictorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance /$$cKathleen Frederickson. 001480653 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bFordham University Press,$$c[2014] 001480653 264_4 $$c©2014 001480653 300__ $$a1 online resource (236 p.) 001480653 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480653 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480653 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480653 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480653 4900_ $$aForms of Living 001480653 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIntroduction --$$t1. Reading Like an Animal --$$t2. The Case of Sexology at Work --$$t3. Freud's Australia --$$t4. Angel in the Big House --$$tCoda --$$tNotes --$$tBibliography --$$tIndex 001480653 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480653 520__ $$aIt is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct's deployment in conceptualizing governmentality.Instinct's domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and "savages" to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of "progress" and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness.This shift in instinct's appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis. 001480653 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001480653 546__ $$aIn English. 001480653 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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