In 2018, Platypus Affiliated Society member Stefan Hain interviewed Volkmar Sigusch (1940–2023), who was considered one of the most important sex researchers in the world. From 1973 to 2006, he was Director of the Institute for Sexual Science at the clinic of the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, as well as Professor of Special Sociology (Sociology of Sexuality) at the Department of Social Sciences in Frankfurt am Main. Sigusch co-founded the International Academy of Sex Research in 1973 and the Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung in 1988. His book Results in Sexual Medicine (1972) was the first in the world to include “Sexual Medicine” in its title.
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On January 27, 2024, Platypus Affiliated Society member Stefan Hain gave this teach-in as part of Platypus’s sixth annual European Conference at the Humboldt University of Berlin. An edited transcript follows.
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On April 29, 2022, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled “Gender and the Left.” The speakers were Sara Rukaj (author of Jungle World), Roswitha Scholz (Gruppe EXIT!) and Stefan Hain (Platypus Affiliated Society). A video of the discussion can be found at , and the original German transcript can be found at
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SINCE PLATYPUS IS A PROJECT primarily concerned with the question of Marxism and the Left, other questions lay close at hand: what is psychoanalysis? Why should the Left take interest in it? What is the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism?
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Wann immer Adorno sich einem Phänomen nähert, ist seine Methode eine der immanenten dialektischen Kritik. Das Phänomen wird weder als zufällig noch als beliebig betrachtet, sondern als notwendige Erscheinungsform, die die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit für Veränderung anzeigt.
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