inversionistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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inversionist (複数形 inversionists)

1. One who inverts something.
   • 1998, Ralf Norrman, Wholeness Restored (page 91)

     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 […]

2. (obsolete, psychology) A proponent of the sexual inversion theory of homosexuality.
   • 2004, Alan Sinfield, On Sexuality and Power (page 12)

     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.