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The article focuses on the use of the term "third sex," citing its adoption by gay right movements in Germany, as of January 2015. It states that German writers Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld used the term in their writings and mentions presence of the term in nineteenth century literature like the book "Mademoiselle de Maupin" by French writer Théophile Gautier. It notes the use of the term for homosexuality and cites that term was notes adopted by activists in Great Britain.

The article presents reprint of an article from journal's website that discusses history of psychoanalysis, a set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories alongwith information on the work of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud on the same. Topics discussed include use of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method, applications of the Freudian theory of the unconscious in avant-garde art and publication of book "The Historiography of Psychoanalysis" authored by Paul Roazen.

The article presents the biography of arachnologist Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, reprinted from the journal's website. He was born on born on September 2, 1853 in Münster, Germany and later served as Curator at the Zoological Museum of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin, Germany. Topics include his essays on sexual diversity of animals; sexual diversity among primitive people; and his views against medicalization of same-sex sexual relation.

The article presents a biography of author Magnus Hirschfeld. Hirschfeld was born on May 14, 1868 in Germany, and studied modern languages in Breslau, and medicine in places like Strasbourg, and München. His professional achievements include biological deconstruction of Western ideology of sexual dimorphism. He had sexual relationships with people like Karl Giese, the archives director of the Institute of Sexual Science.

A reprint is presented from the journal's website on profile of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was born in North Moravian city of Freiberg, Germany on May 6, 1856 and studied medicine in the University in Vienna, Austria. It informs that Freud had influence in all branches of the arts and humanities and he defines sexuality as a universal psychical disposition that constitutes the core of human activity.

The article focuses on the third sex. In the nineteenth century, the term third sex covered a broader semantic field than its present-day usage. Magnus Hirschfeld, who used the term for the first time in 1899, made the concept third sex popular in the twentieth century. The understanding of the third sex as homosexuals was announced in a novel by Honore de Balzac.

Information on the term, psychoanalysis, is presented. It refers to a variety of meanings which range from psychic therapy to a method of cultural analysis. Its definitions and meanings, as coined by psychologist Sigmund Freud, are discussed. Topics discussed in this context include psychoanalysis and GLBTQ concerns, and the historiography of psychoanalysis.

The article presents information on Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, an entomologist and anthropologist who demonstrated the occurrence of same-sex sexual activity throughout the animal kingdom. He played an important role in promoting the acceptability of same-sex love in Western societies. Born on September 2, 1853 in northwestern Germany, became Curator at the Zoological Museum of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Information related to the term third sex is presented. The popularity of the term is related to its use by some representatives of the early homosexual rights movement in Germany. An overview of the three sexes of mankind, male-male, male-female, and female-female is offered. It mentions its usage in the 19th century literature. German scholar Karl Heinrich Ulrichs used the term third sex to refer to homosexuals. It cites psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's perspective on sexuality.

A definition of the term "psychoanalysis" is presented. It refers to the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, in which the patient manifests the contents of his unconscious through free association, and the psychoanalyst engages in the interpretation of these contents. It also discusses about psychoanalysis and glbtq concerns and about feminism and psychoanalysis in France.

A profile of Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, an entomologist and ethnologist, is presented. Information on his birth, birthplace, educational background, family background, major achievements, style of work and career moves is presented. As stated, his arguments were intended to enable an understanding of human sexual diversity and to promote the acceptability of same-sex love in Western societies.

Information about theorist Magnus Hirschfeld is presented. He was born on May 14, 1868, and died in the year 1935. He was recognized as a theorist of sexuality and advocate of homosexual emancipation of his time. His bisexual orientation is also focused upon.

Information about psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is presented. Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis and the discoverer of the unconscious. Information about his social background, educational qualifications, and his literary career is presented. During his lifetime he wrote 24 books and 123 articles containing some 90 specifically Freudian concepts.

A definition for the term "third sex," with reference to homosexuality is presented. The relative popularity of the term is closely connected to its use by some of the prominent representatives of the early homosexual rights movement in Germany. In the nineteenth century, the term covered a broader semantic field than its present-day usage. In a letter of September 22, 1862 addressed to his sister, German scholar Karl Heinrich Ulrichs used the term to refer to homosexuals.

Information on psychoanalysis is presented. It designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. It also designates a movement that encompasses all schools of Freudian thought and therapy. It is used in studies pertaining to gay, lesbian and transgender. Psychoanalysis is also used as a method of analysis of works of art, literary texts and social phenomena.

A profile of Ferdinand Karsch-Haack, sexual emancipation activist in Germany, is presented. He was born on September 2, 1853 in Münster, Germany. His ethnological and cultural treatises on same-sex relations and his critical studies of homosexual personalities in European history are popular. According to him, homosexuality is a phenomenon frequently observable at different levels of animal evolution.

A profile of Magnus Hirschfeld, a theorist of sexuality and advocate of homosexual emancipation, is presented. When he began his world journey in 1930, he was described in the U.S. as Einstein of Sex and in India as modern Vatsayana of the West. He was born in the Prussian city of Kolberg, on the Beltic sea, on May 14, 1868. He studied modern languages and medicine. He took his degree in 1892. In some of his biographies, he has been depicted as gay.

A profile of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis and the discoverer of the unconscious, is presented. he initiated a fundamental transformation in the self-understanding of Western men and women. Freud's psychoanalytical corpus rests upon the new conception of sexuality he developed in opposition to the biological conception dominant in the nineteenth century. Information on his birth, birthplace, educational background, and family background is presented.

The relative popularity of the term "third sex" is closely connected to its use by some of the most prominent representatives of the early homosexual rights movement in Germany. Both Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld used the term "third sex" in their writings and traced its origins back to Plato's Symposium. In this dialogue, Aristophanes propounds a mythological explanation of heteroerotic and homoerotic attraction in connection with the three primordial sexes of mankind: male-male, male-female, and female-female. According to this myth, present-day humans are halves of ancestral composite individuals who belonged to one of these three sexes, whom Zeus punished because of their insolence by dividing them in two.

First and foremost, the term designates the method of psychiatric treatment created by Sigmund Freud, who coined the term in two publications of 1896: Weitere Bemerkungen über Abwehr-Neuropsychosen (Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defense) and L'hérédité et l'étiologie des névroses (Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses), the latter a treatise written in French, in which he depicts "a new method of psychoanalysis." As a specific method of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis presupposes a relation between the psychoanalyst and the patient in which the patient manifests the contents of his unconscious through free association, and the psychoanalyst engages in the interpretation of these contents. In the psychoanalytic situation as described by Freud, there is no attempt to influence the patient by suggestion or hypnosis.

During his around-the-world journey begun in 1930, Magnus Hirschfeld was saluted in America as "[t]he Einstein of Sex" and in India as "the modern Vatsayana of the West." Today, however, his life and work seem almost erased from cultural memory, yet he deserves recognition as a significant theorist of sexuality and the most prominent advocate of homosexual emancipation of his time. In seeking to assess the true dimensions of Hirschfeld's theoretical and emancipatory achievements, his motto per scientiam ad justitiam ["Through Science to Justice"] offers a key to his encompassing sexological program that moves from acknowledgement of the biological facts of human sexuality to a libertarian vision of culture capable of coping with endless sexual diversity. He was convinced that scientific understanding of sexuality would lead to tolerance and acceptance of sexual minorities.

Ferdinand Karsch-Haack's most significant contribution to the sexual emancipation movement in Germany consisted of demonstrating the occurrence of same-sex sexual activity throughout the animal kingdom, among the so-called primitive peoples, and in all non-Western cultures. His zoological and ethno-historical arguments were intended to enable a deeper understanding of human sexual diversity and to promote the acceptability of same-sex love in Western societies. Although the sexual emancipation movement became increasingly divided between a group centered around Magnus Hirschfeld and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and another with more elitist aspirations known as "Die Eigenen," both groups recognized the intrinsic merits of Karsch-Haack's work and were eager to publish his essays in their journals.

Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis and the discoverer of the unconscious. With his epoch-making contributions he initiated a fundamental transformation in the self-understanding of Western men and women. In his lifetime, Freud published 24 books and 123 articles containing some 90 specifically Freudian concepts that form the core of his theory. With this corpus and thanks to a carefully planned strategy for disseminating his ideas, Freud exerted a profound influence in all branches of the arts and humanities.