ADLER Alfred - Homosexuality. Erotic training and erotic retreat [1935].

Warsaw [1935]. Renaissance Ars Medica. 12.5x19.5 cm, pp. 206, cloth bookbinding. Good condition (missing pre-title page, isolated soiling, a few bumps along spine).

A homophobic work by Alfred Adler (1870-1937), an Austrian physician and psychologist. In the first chapter he writes: "The issue of homosexuality is emerging in society like a terrible phantom. The number of perverse people seems to be increasing in spite of and in defiance of all condemnations. Religious curses and laws have little effect on this. Homosexuality is staggering in both rural districts and big cities. Children, adults, old people, men and women alike succumb to this inclination. All measures to combat this deviation are relentlessly applied, but the results of these efforts are very poor. (...) There is no shortage of defenders either. Taking many different positions, countless theories and views only exhibit the fact that numerous multitudes of people are not fulfilling the role assigned to them by their sex and are embarking on other, though long-familiar paths."

In Content: Perversion as an expression of the sexual lifeline. Particulars and casuistry. Examples of seven cases of patients. Other perversions: sadism and masochism. Sexual neurasthenia. Symptoms of puberty. A woman's psychological attitude toward sex life. Psychosexual attitude of a man.