"BACK-FIRE TO LUST" G. Stanley Hall, Sex-Segregated Schooling, and the Engine of Sublimation

• Published in: History of psychology Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 236 - 246
• Main Author: Graebner, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Educational Publishing Foundation 01-08-2006
• Series: G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: A Centennial Reappraisal
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Biological and medical sciences; Developmental Psychology; Educational psychology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; G. Stanley Hall; General aspects; History of medicine and histology; History of Psychology; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Human; Humans; Literature - history; Male; Miscellaneous; Psychologists; Psychology, Adolescent - history; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Same Sex Education; Sublimation; United States; United States; adolescence; coeducation; sexuality; G. Stanley Hall; sublimation; Human; Psychology; Sublimation; Adolescent; Sex; Case history; School environment
• ISBN: 1591477425; 9781591477426
• ISSN: 1093-4510; 1939-0610
• DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.9.3.236

G. Stanley Hall was an advocate of sex-segregated schooling long after most Americans had accepted coeducation. His position was based in part on personal experience: observations of his father and mother, a repressed and guilt-ridden boyhood sexuality, and his conviction that his own career success was a product of sublimated sexual desire, of erotic energy converted into mental energy. Hall theorized that coeducation put sublimation at risk, and that sex-segregated schools, by contributing to proper gendered development and by prolonging and sublimating the sexual tensions of adolescence, would produce social progress.