Puberal amnesia
Pubertal amnesia (from lat. Puberty 'and, Maturity grc. Μνήμη MNEME for, Memory', 'memory' with alpha privative ) referred to in the psychology , the phenomenon is sexually mature adults that hardly or not at all sexual acts and experiences of Remember time before puberty . This particular type of amnesia was conceptually coined by the psychoanalyst and sex researcher Ernst Bornemann .
Puberal amnesia is not as extensive as infantile amnesia , which makes it practically impossible to remember almost anything that occurred before the age of three. Nevertheless, both belong to the form of sexual amnesia . Another form is forgetting traumatic experiences such as B. Sexual abuse .
Puberal amnesia in Bornemann
Ernst Bornemann developed the term puberal amnesia in the course of the 1970s until he finally published an essay of the same name in 1980. Through his collection of nursery rhymes and counting rhymes and their examination of any sexual content, Bornemann found that the sexual interest of children and adolescents not only changed in the course of their development, but that adolescents more and more forgot themselves as their puberty progressed to have cared about the different kinds of children in sexuality. Finally, Bornemann met a large number of parents who assured him that they had never sung such songs themselves or even had committed actions as they are described in these songs.
Bornemann developed his thesis, among other things, from the statistical impossibility that many children carry out corresponding actions - now also adequately researched as doctor games - but hardly adults acknowledge them. In his 1988 book The Sexual Life of the Child , it says: “The psychological function of puberty in our social order is the suppression of the memory of pre-pubescent, non-reproductive sex acts. I have called this process "pubic amnesia" since 1969. "
According to Bornemann, the goal of this repression is multilayered. On the one hand, it serves to underpin patriarchal structures by fully adapting to a sexual norm to be learned. On the other hand, childhood is idealized as a sexless and therefore pure time.
literature
- Ernst Bornemann The original scene: a self-analysis , Hamburg, 1977
- Ernst Bornemann Die Ur-Szene: The formative childhood experience and its consequences , this is an unchanged but newly titled reprint of Die Ur-Szene: a self-analysis , Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-30571-1
- Ernst Bornemann Puberale Amnesia. The child's sexuality and its epistemological consequences. from: Psychoanalyse, 1, (1980) pp. 62-76.
- Ignatz Kerscher, Sexualtabus: Societal Perspectives in Past and Present , pp. 107–127, in: Rolf Gindorf , Erwin J. Haeberle (ed.), With the participation of Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg , Sexuality as a social fact: Theoretical and empirical contributions to a sociology of sexualities , Berlin, 1986, ISBN 978-3-11-085383-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Bornemann Puberale Amnesia. The child's sexuality and its epistemological consequences. from: Psychoanalyse, 1, (1980) pp. 62-76.
- ^ Pschyrembel: Sexuality Dictionary , edited by Stephan Dressler and Christoph Zink, Berlin and New York, 2003, ISBN 3-11-016965-7
- ^ A b Ernst Bornemann, The Sex Life of the Child: Contributions to Child Analysis and Sexual Pedology , Munich, 1988, ISBN 978-3-423-15041-5 , pp. 80–90