Portnoy's Complaint (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed)

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.

General

Imprint:	Pantheon Books Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	September 1994
Authors:	Philip Roth
Dimensions:	210 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	289
Edition:	1st Vintage International ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-75645-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-679-75645-0
Barcode:	9780679756453

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