Meaning of inversionist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who inverts something.
2. A proponent of the sexual inversion theory of homosexuality.
   obsolete

Examples

“But first let us note that the theme of inversion, which is central in Runeberg's poem, is a typical Romantic feature. The Romantics were great inversionists. They inverted any number of dualistic antithetical opposites […]”

“As Freud elaborates his idea of an Oedipus complex and adapts to it his experiences of homosexuality, the congenital claims of Havelock Ellis and the inversionists are largely replaced by a developmental model.”

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