The Psychology of Love

by Freud, Sigmund; Whiteside, Shaun; Johnson, Jeri

• ISBN13: 9780142437469
• ISBN10: 0142437468
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-24
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This original collection brings together by one of the most influential minds of the twentieth century, the most important writings on the psychology of love. Sigmund Freud’s discussions of the ways in which, consciously or unconsciously, sexuality is always psychosexuality (i.e., there is no sexuality without fantasy) have changed social, cultural, and intellectual attitudes toward erotic life. The pieces included here present the development of Freud’s now-famous theories about childhood and the transgressive nature of human desire. The Psychology of Loveincludes: Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora)” Three Essays on Sexual Theory” On the Sexual Theories of Children” Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life” On Female Sexuality”

Author Biography

Sigmund Freud (1856-û1939) lived in Vienna until Hitler-'s invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London in 1938. The father of psychoanalysis, he exerted a profound influence over the intellectual climate of the twentieth century.
Shaun Whiteside-'s translations for Penguin Classics include Nietzsche-'s The Birth of Tragedy and Musil-'s The Confusions of Young T+¦rless.
Jeri Johnson is a fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Translator's Preface	p. xxvii
Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora)	p. 1
Foreword	p. 3
The Clinical Picture	p. 11
The First Dream	p. 56
The Second Dream	p. 83
Afterword	p. 100
Three Essays on Sexual Theory	p. 111
Preface to the Second Edition	p. 113
Preface to the Third Edition	p. 114
Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. 116
The Sexual Deviations	p. 118
Infantile Sexuality	p. 154
The Transformations of Puberty	p. 187
Recapitulation	p. 209
On the Sexual Theories of Children	p. 221
Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life	p. 239
Concerning a Particular Type of Object-choice in Men	p. 241
Concerning the Most Universal Debasement in Erotic Life	p. 250
The Virginity Taboo	p. 262
'A Child is being Beaten': Contribution to the Understanding of the Origin of Sexual Perversions	p. 279
On Female Sexuality	p. 307
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