Sexual States of Mind.
Title:
Sexual States of Mind.
Author:
Meltzer, Donald.
ISBN:
9781780494203
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Series:
The Harris Meltzer Trust Series
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I HISTORY -- Section A: THE THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT -- 1. The Psycho-Analytical Method and its Theories -- 2. Childhood Sexuality and the Oedipus Complex -- 3. Developmental Phases and Organisational Series -- 4. From Pain-and-Fear to Love-and-Pain -- Section B: ON FREUD'S THEORY OF SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- 5. The Clinical Phenomenology of Narcissism -- 6. Clinical Approach to the Perversions -- PART II STRUCTURAL REVISION OF SEXUAL THEORY -- Section A: PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT -- 7. Identification and Socialisation in Adolescence -- 8. The Emergence from Adolescence -- 9. The Introjective Basis of Polymorphous Tendencies in Adult Sexuality -- 10. The Genesis of the Super-ego-Ideal -- Section B: CLINICAL SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY -- 11. Adult Polymorphous Sexuality -- 12. Infantile Polymorphous Sexuality -- 13. Infantile Perverse Sexuality -- 14. Terror, Persecution and Dread -- 15. The Origins of the Fetishistic Plaything of Sexual Perversions -- 16. On the Distinction Ambisexual: Bisexual -- 17. Work, Play and Sublimation -- 18. Structural Revision of the Theory of Perversions and Addictions -- 19. Perversion of the Transference -- PART III APPLICATIONS OF THEORY -- 20. Tyranny -- 21. "Permanent Revolution" of the Generations -- 22. Pedagogic Implications of Structural Psychosexual Theory -- 23. The Psychic Reality of Unborn Children -- 24. The Architectonics of Pornography -- Appendix of Central Ideas -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, thirty years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with the work of Freud himself and including Melanie Klein's contributions on the early Oedipus Complex and the Depressive Position. But more than that, it is a metapsychological study of sexuality which provides a different perspective from more well-known ones that relate simply to a descriptive or behavioural point of view. In differentiating adult sexuality from infantile sexuality and polymorphism and perversion, taking unconscious phantasy and the notion of the primal scene as the pivotal point, Meltzer proposes a unified theoretical and clinical model which has proved of particular help in the field of the psychopathology of addictions and perversions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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