inversionist

English

Etymology

inversion +‎ -ist

Noun

inversionist (plural 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.