Histoire de l'agression sexuelle et de sa condamnation

The Psychology and History of Sexual Violation and Its Condemnation

Call for Papers

The Fall 2018 Special Feature Issue of Clio’s Psyche

Why has sexual violation by powerful men—covered up, denied, suppressed, and repressed for so long—become a powerful theme in the media since the fall of 2017? Why are men, whose predecessors usually got away with sexual assault, now being exposed, shamed, forced to retire, and sometimes fired for unwanted touching and worse? What makes for this change of standards? Blaming the victim by saying they were “asking for it” is now being challenged. In the Fall 2018 Special Feature Issue we are searching for psychodynamic reasons.

We are looking for articles commenting on the following and other topics, especially from the perspective of psychological/psychoanalytic anthropology:

• sexual privilege/harassment/exploitation/violation in cross-cultural perspective
• cultural childrearing practices and sexual violation around the world
• symbols and myths as they relate to sexual privilege/exploitation
• sexual exploitation/violation of children and teenagers
• blaming victims (as “asking for it”)
• the equivalent of the #MeToo movement outside North America
• defense mechanisms and sexual violation
• thresholds of sexual violation as mental illness
• Why in America and why now have the barriers to making these issues public broken down?
• To what extent is the openness about these abuses related to Donald Trump and the Trump presidency?
• varied responses to charges of sexual abuse, especially denial by authorities
• charges for political purposes and fantasies of sexual intrusion
• cases of a rush to judgment without due process, ruining a person’s career
• sexual abuse and sexual fantasy in the Freudian tradition
• sexual privilege and exploitation in the workplace, in athletics and the military, in medical and therapeutic relationships
• sexual violation in history
• case studies
• contributors to the study of cross-cultural sexual violation – profiles and discussion of their work

We seek articles from 500-2,500 words—including seven to ten keywords, a 100-word abstract, and your brief biography ending in your e-mail address—by May 31, 2018. An abstract or outline by May 1 or before would be helpful. Send them as attached Microsoft Word document (*.docx) files to cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com.

It our style to publish thought-provoking, clearly written articles based upon psychological/psychoanalytic insight; developed with examples from history, current events, and the human experience; and without psychoanalytic/psychological terminology or jargon and without foot/endnotes or a bibliography (use internal citations for quotations). Submissions the editors deem suitable are anonymously refereed.

Clio's Psyche is in its 24th year of publication by the Psychohistory Forum. Please visit our website at cliospsyche.org.

Contact co-editors Paul Elovitz, PhD, at cliospsycheeditor@gmail.com or Eva Fogelman, PhD, at evafogman@aol.com regarding this CFP.