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Reading Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - From Pleasure to the Object (Hardcover)
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Reading Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - From Pleasure to the Object (Hardcover)
Series: The History of Psychoanalysis Series
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Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a
founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large
extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud's 1905 theory of
sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its
systematic outline, and its actual relevance. This reconstruction
reveals a non-oedipal theory of sexuality defined in terms of
autoerotic, non-objectal, physical-pleasurable activities
originating from the "drive" and the excitability of erogenous
zones. This book, consequently, not only calls for a
reconsideration of the development of Freudian thinking and of the
status of the Oedipus complex in psychoanalysis but also has a
strong potential for supporting contemporary non-heteronormative
theories of sexuality. It is as such that the 1905 edition of Three
Essays becomes a highly relevant document in contemporary
philosophical discussions of sexuality. This book also explores the
inconsistencies and problems in the original theory of sexuality,
notably the unresolved question of the transition from autoerotic
infantile sexuality to objectal adult sexuality, as well as the
theoretical and methodological shifts present in later editions of
Three Essays. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and
those with an academic interest in the history of psychoanalysis
and sexuality.
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