On psychopathia sexualis
The entire production process of industrialized society was subjected to a violent restructuring that abused the human psyche. In 1880, the medical doctor George Beard, specialist for neuropathology and electrotherapy, published a paper entitled, 'Nervous Exhaution - Neurasthenia' in New York, where the new electricity based technologies had become established faster than anywhere else. This paper triggered a flood of publications and debates which soon made their way across the Atlantic to Europe. Nervosity, situated in 'the no-man's land between illness and health', became the synonym for describing how the individual felt under the hegemony of the second hand of the clock, the dictatorship of timetables and time clock, the hectic pace of the city, being pressed for time, and terrorization by speed.
- op. cit. pg. 82.
In 'Die 'kulturelle' Sexualmoral und die moderne Nervosität' [Sexual Morality and Modern Nervosity], an essay by Sigmund Freud which was first published in 1908, (...), he cites a great number of colleagues and authors who, in the 1890's saw a causal relationship between the neuroses of the age and changes in the technical and, particularly, the communicative conditions of life. One forthright and very detailed example is Wilhelm Heinrich Erb's essay, written in 1893, 'Über die wachsende Nervosität' unserer Zeit' [On the Increasing Nervosity of Our Time]: '... the immasurable increase in traffic, the world-wide networks of telegraph and telephone lines - these have totally changed the relations in commercial and social life: everything is done in haste and agitation, the nights are for travelling, the days for business, even 'holiday trips' are a strain on the nervous system... life in the cities has become more and more sophisticated and more and more agitated'. Erb also describes how, in his view, individuals try to free themselves from this pressure: 'The weakened nerves seek refreshment in stronger stimuli, in heavily spiced pleasures, so that they become even more fatigued; for the most part, modern literature concerns itself with the most disturbing problems, which agitate all the emotions, encourage sensuosness and the craving for pleasure, engender contempt for all ethical principles and all ideals; literature presents the reader's mind with pathological characters, psychopathic-sexual, revolutionary, and other problems; our ears are irritated and overstrained with strident raucous music served in large doses; the theaters captivate all our senses with their excitatory productions; art, too, has particular fondness for all that is repellent, ugly, and exciting and feels no compunction whatsoever in presenting before our eyes the most horrible things that reality has to offer in repulsive realism.'
- op. cit. pg. 84.
Nooombre, parece que está hablando de Barcelona en el siglo XXI.
El ensayo de LA MORAL SEXUAL «CULTURAL» Y LA NERVIOSIDAD MODERNA 1908 Freud lo pueden encontrar en esta dirección, si hemos de confiar en el transcriptor.
- op. cit. pg. 82.
In 'Die 'kulturelle' Sexualmoral und die moderne Nervosität' [Sexual Morality and Modern Nervosity], an essay by Sigmund Freud which was first published in 1908, (...), he cites a great number of colleagues and authors who, in the 1890's saw a causal relationship between the neuroses of the age and changes in the technical and, particularly, the communicative conditions of life. One forthright and very detailed example is Wilhelm Heinrich Erb's essay, written in 1893, 'Über die wachsende Nervosität' unserer Zeit' [On the Increasing Nervosity of Our Time]: '... the immasurable increase in traffic, the world-wide networks of telegraph and telephone lines - these have totally changed the relations in commercial and social life: everything is done in haste and agitation, the nights are for travelling, the days for business, even 'holiday trips' are a strain on the nervous system... life in the cities has become more and more sophisticated and more and more agitated'. Erb also describes how, in his view, individuals try to free themselves from this pressure: 'The weakened nerves seek refreshment in stronger stimuli, in heavily spiced pleasures, so that they become even more fatigued; for the most part, modern literature concerns itself with the most disturbing problems, which agitate all the emotions, encourage sensuosness and the craving for pleasure, engender contempt for all ethical principles and all ideals; literature presents the reader's mind with pathological characters, psychopathic-sexual, revolutionary, and other problems; our ears are irritated and overstrained with strident raucous music served in large doses; the theaters captivate all our senses with their excitatory productions; art, too, has particular fondness for all that is repellent, ugly, and exciting and feels no compunction whatsoever in presenting before our eyes the most horrible things that reality has to offer in repulsive realism.'
- op. cit. pg. 84.
Nooombre, parece que está hablando de Barcelona en el siglo XXI.
El ensayo de LA MORAL SEXUAL «CULTURAL» Y LA NERVIOSIDAD MODERNA 1908 Freud lo pueden encontrar en esta dirección, si hemos de confiar en el transcriptor.
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