Publication

1995 - W.W. Norton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,250 words, Guess

Page Count

257 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing104725
  • Goodreads884623

Classifications

  • DDC155.3
  • LCCBF175.5.S48 M33 1995

Description

"Human sexuality is inherently traumatic." Thus begins this fascinating psychoanalytic study. As Joyce McDougall convincingly demonstrates, the psychic conflicts arising from the tensions between the inner world of primitive instinctual drives and the constraining and denying forces of the external world begin in earliest infancy and have ramifications throughout life. Consequently, psychoanalysis has a specific contribution to make to the study of aberrations in core gender, as well as to the understanding of psychic conflict concerning sexual identity and the quest for love.

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Other Editions

  • The many faces of Eros: a psychoanalytic exploration of human sexualityW.W. Norton1995-01-01

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