The Many Faces of Eros A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Human Sexuality

by McDougall, Joyce

• ISBN13: 9780393702156
• ISBN10: 0393702154
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"A mature, considered presentation of [McDougall's] current thinking on sexuality . . . simultaneously impassioned and dispassionate, erudite and plain-spoken, conservative in her insistence on basic psychoanalytic assumptions and radical in her celebration of intimate human diversity." --Contemporary Psychology

Author Biography

Joyce McDougall, Ed.D., is training and supervising psychoanalyst with the Paris Psychoanalytical Institute and Society.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Sexuality in Search of Solutions: An Eternal Quest?
Femininity and Sexuality
The Homosexual Components of Female Sexuality	p. 3
The Female Analyst and the Female Analysand	p. 17
Female Sexualities: Themes and Variations	p. 31
Sexuality and Creativity
Sexuality and the Creative Process	p. 53
Creativity and Bisexual Identifications	p. 69
Trauma and Creativity	p. 93
Sex and the Soma
Archaic Sexualities and the Psychosoma	p. 117
The Smell Self and the Skin Self	p. 133
From the Silence of the Soma to the Words of the Psyche	p. 153
Deviations of Desire
Neosexual Solutions	p. 171
Neoneeds and Addictive Sexualities	p. 183
Sexual Deviation and Psychic Survival	p. 201
Psychoanalysis on the Couch
Deviations in the Psychoanalytic Attitude	p. 217
Beyond Psychoanalytic Sects in Search of a New Paradigm	p. 233
References	p. 247
Index	p. 253
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