Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg

Gisela Ingeborg Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (born August 2, 1929 ) is a German sociologist who specializes in work and research in psychology , ethnology , comparative Indo-European linguistics , comparative religious studies and philosophy, and anthropology .

Life

Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg was a telegraph / telephone operator, then studied sociology, psychology, ethnology, comparative Indo-European linguistics, comparative religious studies and philosophy in Bonn from the mid-1960s, and in 1969 acquired a Magister Artium there on homosexuality and transvestment in shamanism ; In 1970, the dissertation was carried out there for Dr. phil. on sexual aberration in the judgment of occidental religious, intellectual and legal history in connection with the development of society .

After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Bonn, later a publicist, freelance journalist and active in promoting talented students, as well as a member and collaborator in various political organizations and research groups, for example as a board member of the German Society for the Promotion of Social Sexual Research and the 1988 ins life called commission of inquiry AIDS of the German Bundestag to investigate the social, legal and health policy implications and challenges of the disease.

Services

The focus of her mostly post structural work on the socio-psychological research on prejudice in the identity-as ideology-critical tradition of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School is on the socio-cultural, socio-historical and socio-psychological research into the development and various manifestations of Western opposed to the body, deviate sexual forms, homophobia , misogyny , gender roles and the Patriarchy , for which she also draws on the work of other scientists and scholars such as Mircea Eliade , Marija Gimbutas or Michel Foucault . Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg does not belong to the political-emancipatory women's movement, although she has published on the topics of misogyny and patriarchy.

Description of important works

Taboo Homosexuality - The Story of a Prejudice (1978)

According to Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, the causes of the homophobia that has run through history, which in addition to misogyny was the basis of the patriarchy, go back thousands of years and are based on the three basic population layers of the West since the last Ice Age, i.e. in detail the successive Sub-Arctic shaman culture , the maternal megalithic culture and the Indo-Germanization of Europe. The immediate trigger was the conflict, based on a traumatic ethnocentric shock reaction, between the Indo-European tribes invading from the east and the maternal megalithic culture in general and the travesty shamanism in particular, which is continued as the priesthood . The mythological notion of envy as a non-human monster that emerged from this was of central importance up to modern times .

The Pedophile Impulse - How Does a Young Person Learn Sexuality? (1985/88)

In her book, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg develops the view that there is an impulse that can be called pedophilia unchanged in the animal kingdom, among primitive peoples, in ancient Greece and in modern western industrialized countries. This impulse is genetically anchored and basically peaceful in its nature. It is complementary to psychosexual and biological child development and equally necessary for humans and animals for sociobiological and, in the case of humans and great apes , anthropological causes, although it always only affects a minority of adult individuals (due to the constitutional disposition to polygamy, especially in pedophiles).

Foreword to the socio-psychological study Pädosexuelle Erlebnisse by Theo Sandfort (1986)

Your foreword to the long-term scientific study Pedosexual Experiences by the sociologist and psychologist Theo Sandfort, which is supported and funded by the University of Utrecht and the Dutch government, to investigate existing pedophile relationships is significant because it deals more comprehensively and thoroughly with the existing criticism, all of which came from the USA Sandfort's fundamental study (" there can be little question that this is one of the most important books on child sexuology to appear in this decade ", according to the editors of the Dutch publishing house Spartacus about the study) dealt with as Robert Bauserman 1990.

The criticism of Mrazek (1985) that the study was: "politically" supported, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg holds against how shocking it is, especially for later-born Germans because of their catastrophic history, that the Jew Mrazek apparently wanted to ban social minorities, To be able to express oneself politically in order to: "Achieve" education of the public ". Furthermore, the comparison, cited by Mrazek, of consensual doctoral games with: "Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and heroin" (cf. also David Finkelhor 1990, who compares the relationships examined by Sandfort with the most brutal enslavement of helot peoples) is simply unacceptable and testifies to both: " deep emotional disgust “against the examined topic, such as arrogance towards those supposed victims, to whom he wants to prescribe certain morally required sensations, perceptions and emotional and physical consequences, and finally also of homophobia, on the basis of which the examined same-sex acts are more or less exclusive to the boys involved Would infect homosexuality for life , which the results of the study in no way indicated.

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Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg accuses the criticism of Masters, Johnson and Kolodny (1985): "quite sought" clues for alleged methodological omissions of Sandfort, which on the one hand are fictitious, on the other hand exclusively from the three authors of the criticism alone as: "significant" and the Would be classified as threatening the validity. In addition, it represents the exclusively ideologically justified refusal of the authors, even in the beginning, in individual cases or in individual aspects, not to perceive the research area examined by Sandfort as fundamentally bad, malicious and harmful, whereby Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg recognizes the characteristics "how a prejudice does what I spoke of earlier: namely, how it undermines one's own analysis with brilliance. ”Thus, any neutral to positive aspects and consequences of sexual acts determined by the study would be unfounded by the three authors, without any theoretical sociological one or fantasizes psychological evidence as alleged negative effects of a damaged psyche or even as forced lies.

Fear and Prejudice - AIDS Fears as a Subject of Prejudice Research (1989)

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In 1988 Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg was appointed by the German Bundestag to head the Study Commission AIDS for research into the social, legal and health policy effects and challenges of the disease on the basis of her previous work . Your book Anxiety and Prejudice is based on the work of this commission and its own final report to the Kohl government.

In Anxiety and Prejudice , Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg fundamentally supplements her research presented in Tabu Homosexuality , as to some extent already in The Pedophile Impulse , on occidental hostility through the numinous , religious and later ideological-pseudoscientific connection of hostility and the associated pressure to conform to the entire personality with original Plagues and natural disasters sent by gods as punishment. Here draw a straight line from leprosy as punishment for sinful and vicious life in general, but in particular lasciviousness and fornication in the Old Testament, initially to the plague in the Middle Ages. When science began to slowly break away from religion, syphilis came from the New World to confirm the traditional numinous prejudices that surpassed sexuality by linking them to the hostility of the body, which is central to our western Indo-European culture, and only a few AIDS emerged decades after penicillin was introduced .

From Butterfly to Double Ax - The Revaluation of Femininity in Our Culture (1990)

Here Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg offers an in-depth presentation of her socio-psychological, cultural and historical research by means of comparative religion and linguistics as well as text-critical investigations on the hostile-war patriarchy, especially from the point of view of misogyny.

What is particularly noteworthy about this work is the further development of her concept of sexuality and aggression as opposite poles, as developed in The Pedophile Impulse , as well as of sexuality as a fundamental social bonding agent in the sense of a sense of community comparable to Sigmund Freud's comprehensive life instinct Eros, to an evolutionary theory of cooperation that promoted by evolution basically peaceful coexistence of individuals of the same species.

Secondly, it refers here to further hardening of her first time in Tabu homosexuality used Kurganhypothese to Indogermanisierung of the West to the extensive, also interdisciplinary research Reinhard Schmoeckels.

Awards

• Osnabrück gay and lesbian culture days Gay in May : Rosa Courage .

Fonts (selection)

• 1970: Homosexuality and transvestment in shamanism , in: Anthropos , 65th edition
• 1972: Germany's Hope , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-8205-5178-6 ; 5th edition 1989 by Bertelsmann Verlag.
• 1977: Anti- homosexual penal laws , in: Rüdiger Lautmann, Seminar: Society and Homosexuality , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main. (2nd edition 1980, 3rd edition 1984)
• 1978: Pedophilia and violence in indigenous societies and non-European high cultures , in: Karin Albrecht-Desirat (Ed.), Sexualität und Violence , päd. Extra Buchverlag, Bernsheim. ISBN 3921450705
• Taboo homosexuality - The story of a prejudice , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-10-007302-9 (2nd edition 1981 under the title Homosexuality - The Story of a Prejudice )
• 1980: Mannability rites: on institutional pederasty among Papuans and Melanesians , Ullstein materials, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-54-835066-6 (2nd edition 1985 Ullstein)
• 1983 The shaman as a master of the imagination or the high art of flying , in: Hans Peter Duerr (ed.), Alcheringa , or The beginning time - studies of mythology, shamanism and religion, Qumran, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-88655-185-7 (2nd edition 1989 at Athenaeum)
• 1984: The Weibmann - Cultic Gender Change in Shamanism. A study on transvestment and transsexuality among indigenous peoples. (Extended version of the master's dissertation from 1969 on shamanism and transvestitation ), Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-596-27348-X .
• 1984: Passing Reality - Protection of Minors and Prejudice , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim ( The Month series , 293rd edition).
• 1985: The Pedophile Impulse - How Does a Young Person Learn Sexuality? , in: Melvin Lasky and Helga Hegewisch (eds.) Love, Sexuality and Social Myths , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim (series The Month , 295th edition). ISBN 3-407-39151-X
• 1986: Transsexuality: Ethnosociological and ethnomethodological perspectives on a problem of self-identification , in: Rolf Gindorf and Erwin J. Haeberle (eds.), Sexuality as a social fact (series of publications on social science sex research 1) , Walter de Gruyter (German society for social science sex research), Berlin . ISBN 3-11-010147-5
• 1986: Do viruses ask morality? Our difficulties with sexually transmitted diseases , in: Siegfried R. Dunde, AIDS - What changes a disease , Frankfurt / Main.
• 1987: New research into the Greek institution of pederasty , in: One-off Publication of the International Scientific Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies "Homosexuality: Which Homosexuality?" , Amsterdam.
• 1987: The concept of shamanism in Georges Devereux , in: Hans Peter Duerr (Ed.), Die Wilde Seele - On the ethnopsychoanalysis by Georges Devereux , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-518-11235-X
• 1987: On the rise of self-consciousness - On the Sexualhistorie des Abendlandes , in: Siegfried R. Dunde (Hrsg.), If I am not allowed to love, others are not allowed to either - On how men treat themselves and others , Reinbek.
• 1987: What is “necessary” about the gender differences? , in: Siegfried R. Dunde, Gender Envy, Gender Friendship - Distance and rediscovered closeness , Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3596238625
• 1988: The Paedophile Impulse: Toward the Development of an Aetiology of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts from an Ethological and Ethnological Viewpoint (expanded and updated version of the work on pedophilia from 1985, translation by Hubert Kennedy), in: Paidika - Journal of Paedophilia , 3 . Output. (Reprinted 1997 in: Joseph Geraci and Angelia R. Wilson (Eds.), Dares to speak: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-Love , Gay Men's Press, London. ISBN 0-85449-2410 )
• 1988: The Scapegoat Syndrome - AIDS as a Challenge to Society and the Church , in: Jürgen Micks & Raul Niemann, Positive or Negative? - AIDS as fate and opportunity , Gütersloh.
• 1990: From butterfly to double ax - The revaluation of femininity in our culture , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-59-610116-6
• 1990: Pederasty among primitives: Institutionalized initiation and cultic prostitution , in: Journal of Homosexuality , 20th edition. Reprinted in: Theo Sandfort, Edward Brongersma, Alex van Naerssen (eds.), Male intergenerational intimacy - Historical, socio-psychological, and legal perspectives , Harrington Park Press, New York and London. ISBN 0-918393-78-7
• 1991: The body as the adversary of the soul - origins of dualistic concepts of being in the Occident , in: Christoph Wulf & Michael Sonntag, The Soul - Your Story in the Occident , Psychologie Verlags Union, Munich. 2nd edition 2000 by Parkland Verlag. 3rd edition 2005 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• 1991: Same-sex marriage and prejudice , in: Klaus Laabs (Ed.), Lesben, Schwule, Standesamt - Die Debatte um die Homoehe , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-86153-020-1
• 1993: The prejudice against homosexuality in the West , in: Barbara Kittelberger et al. (Ed.), What is at stake - contributions to the discussion on homosexuality and the church , Claudius-Verlag, Munich. ISBN 3-532-62154-1
• 1993: Ferdinand Karsch-Haack , in: Rüdiger Lautmann (Ed.), Homosexuality - Handbook of Theory and Research History , Campus, Frankfurt / Main.
• 1994: Férfi gyermekágy, noapák, machoismo - Apaszerepek a különbözo kultúrákban ("Male childbearing ability, female fathers, male gender roles - fatherhood in a cultural comparison", possibly Hungarian translation of the work on fatherhood from 1995, translation by Veronika Süvegh), in: Orpheus - Orpheus ("Orpheus - Zeitschrift für Literatur"), No. 4, pp. 21–34
• 1995: Homosexuality among primitive peoples , in: Ernst Otto Arntz & Peter-Paul König (eds.), Church and the question of homosexuality , Benno-Bernward-More mbH publishing company, Hildesheim. ISBN 3-89543-091-9 ( Collection of a series of lectures given at the Conference Church and the Question of Homosexuality 1994 in the Academy of the Diocese of Hildesheim. )
• 1995 Fatherhood in a comparison of cultures , in: H. Michelsen (Ed.), About Father - Sketches of an Important Relationship , Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz.
• 1997: Newer research on institutionalized Greek pederasty , in: Frits Bernard (Ed.), Pedophilia without borders - theory, research, practice , Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-9222-57836 (first publication of the German original of the ethnological work on pederasty published in English in 1987)
• 1997: Pederasty among primitive peoples , in: Frits Bernard (Ed.), Pedophilia without borders - theory, research, practice , Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-9222-57836
• 1997: Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986) , in: Hans Erler (Hrsg.), "The world is created for me" - The intellectual legacy of German-speaking Jewry , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main. ISBN 3-593-35842-5
• 2003: * Contributions in: Arne Hoffmann, The Lexicon of Breaking Taboos - Dares, Scandals, Provocations , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf-Verlag, Berlin

literature

• 1991: Newsletter on Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg's achievements in Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theo Sandfort (1986): Pädosexuelle Erlebnisse - From a study by the University of Utrecht on sexuality in pedophile relationships , Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag (official publisher of Pro-Familia publications), Braunschweig. ISBN 3-923722-17-6
2. ^ Robert Bauserman (1990): Objectivity and Ideology - Criticism of Theo Sandfort's Research on Man-Boy Sexual Relations , in: Journal of Homosexuality , 20th edition (Eng.)
3. ↑ Reinhard Schmoeckel (1982): The shepherds who changed the world - The (prehistoric) awakening of the Indo-European peoples , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg. ISBN 3-498-06150-X (revised 2nd edition under the title The Shepherds Who Changed the World - The History of the Early Indo-Europeans in Rowohlt Taschenbuch-Verlag 1985, revised and expanded 3rd edition under the title Die Indoeuropäer - Departure from the prehistory at Bastei Lübbe 1999)
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Newsletter , October 1991, Vol. 13, No. 3: pp. 43–75 ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.