Selfish Passions and Artificial Desire: Rereading Clérambault's Study of "Silk Erotomania"

The French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872-1934) presented four cases of women who displayed an autoerotic passion for pieces of silk that they stole from department stores.1 Amidst the periods of depression that shaped these patients' lives, their sexual use of stolen fabric ga...

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Published in:	Journal of the history of sexuality 2009-01, Vol.18 (1), p.158-179
Main Author:	Shera, Peta Allen
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	"Passion érotique des étoffes chez la femme" 1872-1934 1900-1999 20th century autoeroticism Clérambault, Gaëtan Gatian de Clothing - economics Clothing - history Clothing - psychology Clérambault, Gaëtan Gatian de consumerism consumption Criticism and interpretation Department stores Desire Discovery and exploration Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders - ethnology Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders - history Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders - psychology Ego Emotions Emotions - physiology Empirical Research Erotica - history Erotica - legislation & jurisprudence Erotica - psychology Erotomania Erotomania (Delusion) female sexuality Fetishism France France - ethnology French literature History History of medicine History, 20th Century Impulse control disorders Larceny Literature, Modern - history Mental Disorders - ethnology Mental Disorders - history Mental Disorders - psychology Passion Pathology Personality - physiology Physician-Patient Relations Physicians - economics Physicians - history Physicians - legislation & jurisprudence Physicians - psychology Pleasure Portrayals prose Psychiatrists Psychiatry - economics Psychiatry - education Psychiatry - history Psychiatry - legislation & jurisprudence Sexual behavior Sexual Behavior - ethnology Sexual Behavior - history Sexual Behavior - physiology Sexual Behavior - psychology Sexual behaviour Sexual self stimulation Sexuality Silk Silk - history Social history Theft - economics Theft - ethnology Theft - history Theft - legislation & jurisprudence Theft - psychology Women Women's Health - economics Women's Health - ethnology Women's Health - history Women's Health - legislation & jurisprudence Works
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