J Homosex. 2022 Jan 28;69(2):300-331. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1819711. Epub 2020 Oct 6.
US-American philosopher Norman O. Brown (1913-2002) was one of the very few twentieth-century intellectuals to situate hermaphroditism at the core of their work. Although Brown's publications became cult books of the then emerging protest subcultures and were eventually regarded as milestones in the history of Freudian revisionism, the reception of his views on hermaphroditism has been insubstantial. The present contribution focuses at first on Brown's attempt to supersede binary sexuality and its same-sex/other-sex combinatories by positing an ambit of hermaphroditic reconciliation that emerges from the depths of the unconscious, but is effectual only as an eschatological ideal. Against this backdrop, Brown's consequential neglect of Charles Darwin's universalization of corporeal hermaphroditism and of Magnus Hirschfeld's conception of human sexual intermediariness are analyzed and assessed.
美国哲学家诺曼·O·布朗(Norman O. Brown,1913-2002 年)是 20 世纪极少数将雌雄同体置于其作品核心的知识分子之一。尽管布朗的出版物成为当时新兴抗议亚文化的邪教书籍,并最终被视为弗洛伊德修正主义历史上的里程碑,但他对雌雄同体的观点的接受程度却微不足道。本研究首先集中探讨了布朗试图超越二元性,并通过提出一种从潜意识深处浮现但仅作为末世论理想才有效的雌雄同体和解领域,来取代其相同性别/其他性别组合。在此背景下,分析和评估了布朗随后忽视了查尔斯·达尔文(Charles Darwin)对身体雌雄同体的普遍化和马格努斯·赫希菲尔德(Magnus Hirschfeld)对人类性中间性的概念。