Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

According to the popular imagination, psychoanalysis is about men wanting to sleep with their mothers and women wanting penises. This book tells a different story about what has happened to sex in psychoanalysis over the past century. A range of distinguished contributors challenge the view that sexuality is nothing other than historically and culturally determined. Introducing the ideas of sexuality from the viewpoint of a number of theoretical schools, they cover topics such as: sexuality in childhood; female and male sexuality (hetero- and homosexual) and sexual perversions. 201 pages.