Sexual States of Mind

Author(s) : Donald Meltzer

Sexual States of Mind

Book Details

  • Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
  • Published : 2018
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 238
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 93941
  • ISBN 13 : 9781912567454
  • ISBN 10 : 1912567458

Table of Contents

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction

PART I: HISTORY

SECTION A – THE THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
1. The psychoanalytical 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 PATHOLOGY
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 perversion
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

References
Index

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