Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie

by Sinason, M.

• ISBN13: 9780415128049
• ISBN10: 0415128048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytic Society, Dr. William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on female sexuality, regression in old people facing death, and on instinct theory. In this first ever collection of Gillespie's papers, editor Michael Sinason has written an introduction that looks back on the productive 90 years of Gillespie's life. Sinason writes movingly of his early life in China and Scotland and shows his development as a psychoanalytic thinker, organizer and administrator, husband and father. Charles Socarides, an American psychoanalyst eminent in the field of perversion and its treatment, discusses the innovations introduced by each of the papers in the collection and shows how Gillespie's ideas influenced his own contributions and affected the field as a whole. William Gillespieis internationally known not only for his scientific contributions, but also for his skills, integrity and tact in managing the International Psycho-Analytical Association adn the British Psycho-Analytical Society, where he was trusted and respected by Melanie Klein and Anna Freud.

Table of Contents

The New Library of Psychoanalysis	p. ii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction to the Papers	p. 1
Biographical Introduction	p. 3
William H. Gillespie's Psychoanalysis of Sexual Perversions: an Appreciation and Integration	p. 35
A Contribution to the Study of Fetishism	p. 57
Notes on the Analysis of Sexual Perversions	p. 70
The General Theory of Sexual Perversion	p. 81
The Structure and Aetiology of Sexual Perversion	p. 93
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual Deviation with Special Reference to Fetishism	p. 101
Contribution to Symposium on Homosexuality	p. 119
Concepts of Vaginal Orgasm	p. 130
Woman and Her Discontents: a Reassessment of Freud's Views on Female Sexuality	p. 135
Extrasensory Elements in Dream Interpretation	p. 151
Aggression and Instinct Theory	p. 162
Some Regressive Phenomena in Old Age	p. 170
The End of Life	p. 180
Other Writings and References	p. 191
Full Chronological List of Writings, Published and Unpublished	p. 193
References	p. 198
Name Index	p. 204
Subject Index	p. 206
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