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In this book, Dr Stoller describes patients with marked
abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily
transsexuals, transvestites and patients with marked biological
abnormalities of their sex - in order to find clues to gender
development in more normal people.
Exploring the connections between cognitive science and
psychoanalysis, the authors indicate that a potentially fruitful
relationship can exist between the two fields. The book examines
this relationship, concluding that psychoanalysis can contribute to
a science of the mind when it flows into a more effective science
and technology such as cognitive science.
As viewed by the authors, cognitive science is "a new, lively
field, full of novel concepts and methods about the mind." This is
sharply contrasted with their opinion of psychoanalysis as a
discipline which must change and consider such important problems
in the study of the mind such as fantasies and feelings.
Colby and Stoller do not specify how psychoanalysis must evolve,
but they do make suggestions for future research. They believe that
they are "exercising the prerogative of tribal elders, pass(ing)
the task along to the next generation."
This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity
and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at
denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a
jeopardized sexual identity.
This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state
a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem
and the solution being the poles between which excitement flows.
A previously unpublished work by the author. 'It was like
discovering a previously unknown recording by the Beatles. On a
2007 visit to the author's widow, Sybil, she handed me a
manuscript. The author's last book had been placed in a publishing
queue by his retiring editor. After the author''s death Sybil was
told that the publisher had discontinued psychoanalytic books. It
languished on a home shelf in Los Angeles for sixteen years. I was
holding the final work by psychoanalysis's most eloquent writer on
sex.' - From the Foreword by Dr Richard Green
Exploring the connections between cognitive science and
psychoanalysis, the authors indicate that a potentially fruitful
relationship can exist between the two fields. The book examines
this relationship, concluding that psychoanalysis can contribute to
a science of the mind when it flows into a more effective science
and technology such as cognitive science. As viewed by the authors,
cognitive science is "a new, lively field, full of novel concepts
and methods about the mind." This is sharply contrasted with their
opinion of psychoanalysis as a discipline which must change and
consider such important problems in the study of the mind such as
fantasies and feelings. Colby and Stoller do not specify how
psychoanalysis must evolve, but they do make suggestions for future
research. They believe that they are "exercising the prerogative of
tribal elders, pass(ing) the task along to the next generation."
This book aims to show that the function of day-dreams is to state
a problem that has been disguised and then to solve it, the problem
and the solution being the poles between which excitement flows.
This previously unpublished work by Robert Stoller, his final work,
was discovered in 2007. I think of the term erotics as having
sexual meanings: a subject for study (such as economics ); a set of
behaviors, including fantasies such as daydreams; dynamics of an
aspect of mental life (with underlying biologic dynamics); and
people who are erotics the way we say lunatics seen from the
perspective of their erotic desire, people such as Sade or my
informants, such as Bill, a professional pornographer whom you will
soon meet, or Fay, who lives for love, who first arrives at my
office with Bill.Getting more involved in studying erotic
excitement, I saw that erotic daydreams, including pornography, not
only offered a way to understand someone s erotic life but could
give a wider view of personality. As, over the years, that
awareness grew, I have had to confront my failure to jump in and
mine the raw material. What I now know to be my resistance
avoidance I used to think of as simply boredom, disbelief,
conviction that these scripted fantasies had no value for theory or
its confirmation; unwillingness to get into disreputable stuff that
could harm my reputation, and uneasiness about descending into
certain dark areas of human behavior and fantasy. And there was no
path in that jungle. But the subject was being pushed at me from
above by patients and informants and pulled toward me from below by
my curiosity. The latter is strong; so the more I understand the
dynamics of erotic excitement, the more the fun in exploring people
s erotic lives. The clues accumulate. From the Introduction"
The main contention is that in perversion the main clinical factor
is hostility. It combines with sexual desire to produce the various
forms that perversion can take on. Stoller shows that the perverse
scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a
more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity. Risk, vengeance
and trauma are some of the ideas that the author discusses while
building up his argument
A preeminent psychoanalyst explores the world of consensual
S&M. An expert on the dynamics of perversion and erotic
excitement, Dr. Stoller sets out on an expedition to the S&M
community of West Hollywood. We meet the highly articulate Ron, who
serves as a guide to the fetishes and bizarre practices of both
casual and devoted proponents of sadomasochism. We are introduced
to Marilyn and Claudelle, two warmly opinionated entrepreneurs of a
B&D (bondage and discipline) establishment. The arcane business
of S&M videos is documented by Merlin, and enthusiastic
producer of pornography. Most interesting are Dr. Stoller's
provocative questions to these denizens of the S&M world and
his engaging musings on their answers.Like an anthropologist in New
Guinea, Dr. Stoller observes the customs of these natives. He
studies them in his quest for insight into the perplexing question
of why some people associate pain and humiliation with intense
erotic desire. Thus, his journey is not only external, but
internal--into the meaning and boundaries of the term "perversion"
and its place within the psyche. He investigates how the theater of
the imagination is moved into the real world's reverberating
complexity. In the course of this journey, Dr. Stoller changes his
views, first referring to these S&M practitioners as specimens
and then perceiving them, in their ambiguities and contradictions,
as human beings. By joining Dr. Stoller, we find not only nuances
in the meanings of consensual sadomasochism but larger implications
of what being human means.
This classic book is a detailed case study of a woman, otherwise
intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had
internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. Dr. Robert
Stoller's account of this woman's diagnosis and treatment is
illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during
her therapy, providing enough detail to be useful to clinicians in
training. Originally published in hardcover in 1973, the book is
now available in paperback for the first time. "One of the longest,
most minutely detailed, and most fascinating case reports in the
psychiatric literature. . . . An extremely original contribution to
the study of perversion."-Ethel Spector Person, M.D., from the
Foreword "One of the great clinical case studies. Splitting
demonstrates the power of psychoanalytic reasoning in the twentieth
century."-Gilbert Herdt, University of Chicago
What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can
we learn about our culture's sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies
from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this
book, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, one of the world's leading experts on
human sexual behavior, joins with I. S. Levine, a professional
writer with long experience in X-rated video making, to examine the
ideas and psychological makeup of the participants in an adult
heterosexual X-rated video, Stairway to Paradise. Their interviews
with performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians
provide extraordinary insights into the technical aspects of this
type of video, the motivations and backgrounds of the people
involved, and the porn industry's view of the video's intended
audience. Stoller, Levine, and the porn filmmakers have wide
ranging discussions about the aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette of
the porn industry; the hostility that Dr. Stoller claimed underlies
all erotic excitement; the liberating - and educational - function
of porn in a puritanical culture; the misconceptions of antiporn
crusaders; the impact of AIDS on the participants; and the future
of the porn film industry. The authors hope that if we understand
how and why a pornographic work is created, we will be better able
to understand the implications of the legal and moral issues it
raises.
Bill, Merlin, Happy, and Kay are among the porn-film performers and
producers who tell their stories to Dr. Robert J. Stoller in this
pschyodynamic ethnography of adult heterosexual pornography. Their
engrossing accounts reveal in rich detail not only the inner
workings of "the Industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its
participants but also the relation between this most denigrated of
occupations and "normal" human erotic behavior and attitudes.
Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents, Dr.
Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn, its
practitioners, and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a
porn production, he says, uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or
her rage against something-mores, institutions, laws, parents,
females, or males. According to Dr. Stoller, pornography does not
exist only to degrade women, there is no reliable evidence that it
increases the frequency of rape, and (with the exception of child
porn) it does little harm. Pornography, says Dr. Stoller, seems
more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it
reflects, more than influences, our values and mores.
"Stoller is not just a scientist but a lover of words and language.
In this book, his text is as playful, charming, and serious as his
topic. The mix, a scientific and aesthetic exploration of the
erotic imagination, is almost as irresistible as one's own erotic
daydreams. Observing the Erotic Imagination is for all professional
and private students of the erotic."-Dr. Ethel Person "This book is
a delight....He offers a model clinical illustration, brilliant and
full of presence. Indeed, Stoller's entire book is a model of
clear, elegant conversational prose."-Jerome B. Katz, M.D.,
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "Stoller presents new thoughts on
his most provocative theory of the relationship between erotic
excitement and fantasy of revenge and hostility."-Anke A. Ehrhardt,
Ph.D. and Evan J. Elkin, Journal of the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent "Stoller's account is comprehensive and
levelheaded."-Psychological Reports
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