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Sex in Psychoanalysis

Albert — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:50:11 +0000

Sex in Psychoanalysis

1916. Contributions to psychoanalysis. Dr. Ferenczi was known as one of the leading exponents of psychoanalysis, and apart from Freud, has made more original contributions to this subject than any other person. Contents: analytic interpretation and treatment of psychosexual impotence; introjection and transference; psychological analysis of dreams; on obscene words; the part played [...]

Psychodynamic Psychology: Classical Theory and Contemporary Research

Albert — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:46:18 +0000

Psychodynamic Psychology: Classical Theory and Contemporary Research

Of all the many approaches to psychology, the psychodynamic comes closest to what the layperson expects from psychology. It tackles issues central to human experience including how our relationship with our parents affects our adult relationships, why men and women are different and why we dream. The psychodynamic approach [...]

Tragedy: Contradiction and Repression

Albert — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:46:43 +0000

Tragedy: Contradiction and Repression

Drawing on philosophical and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation, Richard Kuhns explores modern transformations of an ancient poetic genre, tragedy. Recognition of the philosophical problems addressed in tragedy, and of their presence up through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophical texts, novels, and poetry, establishes a continuity between classical and modern enactments. Psychoanalytic theory in [...]

Normative Psychoanalysis: How the Oedipal Dogma Shapes Consumer Culture Reviews

Albert — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:47:51 +0000

Normative Psychoanalysis: How the Oedipal Dogma Shapes Consumer Culture

NORMATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS is both a critique of Sigmund Freud’s cultural concept of psychoanalysis, and Freud’s theory of the Oedipus Complex. Many young parents believe that psychoanalysis had contributed to the liberation of the child; they think it to be a form of permissiveness, or a variant of [...]

Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend

Albert — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:47:30 +0000

Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend

In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero [...]

Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the 21st Century

Albert — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:47:05 +0000

Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the 21st Century

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Freud’s theories demonstrates why they are still indispensable to understanding ourselves and the way we behave. In Basic Freud, [...]

Our Original Scenes. Freud’s Theory of Sexuality (Figures of the Unconscious,) (v. 6)

Albert — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:54:14 +0000

Our Original Scenes. Freud’s Theory of Sexuality (Figures of the Unconscious,) (v. 6)

Freud’s ideas on infantile sexuality can only be understood as constructions that are necessary to understand the psychopathological formations of adults. These constructions of infantile sexuality, therefore, must not be considered to be speculations about infant behaviour as such, because in infancy sexuality [...]

Psychosexual Development

Albert — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:47:09 +0000

Psychosexual Development

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The concept of psychosexual development, as envisioned by Sigmund Freud at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, is a central element in his sexual drive theory, which posits that, from birth, humans have instinctual sexual appetites (libido) which unfold in a series [...]

Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence

Albert — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:42:40 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence

2010 Reprint of 1916 English Edition. Leonardo da Vinci remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud’s entire output. A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo’s emotional life from his earliest years, this work represents Freud’s first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and [...]

Sadism as a psychosexual disorder

Albert — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:29:26 +0000

“The perfect counterpart to masochism is sadism,” wrote Austro-German sexologist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his 1886 text Psychopathia Sexualis. “While in the former there is a desire to suffer and be subjected to violence, in the latter the wish is to inflict pain and use of violence.” When Krafft-Ebing wrote of sexual perversions in [...]

Psychosexual dysfunctions in the USA

Albert — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:25:49 +0000

During the 1960s, America experienced a dramatic shift in traditional values related to psychological views on sexuality. With profound societal change occurring with the Civil rights movement and the baby boom generation, the first modern era of open sexuality in America challenged established sexual norms. The height of the sexual revolution was accompanied by massive [...]

The Psychosexual Effects of Rape

Albert — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:02:03 +0000

Whether it occurs as a strategy of military or in an isolated incident, rape is an effective weapon not only physically, but psychologically. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide that cost between 800,000 to 1 million lives over the course of 100 days, rape became a widespread and systematic modus operandi. Indeed, a 1996 report published [...]

Psychosexual Effects of Circumcision

Albert — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:44:25 +0000

Circumcision poses an interesting dilemma concerning its psychosexual effects and possibly trauma it inflicts. Increasingly there is a prevalent mentality in society that because humans now have the technology and capability to alter their physical appearance, that they should be allowed to do so on the basis that it boosts their self-value. Sometimes the reasons [...]

Pain and Pleasure: Masochism as a psychosexual disorder

Albert — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:29:29 +0000

Anytime one thinks they can apply a universal truth to humanity, it is bound to be contradicted. For example, pain and suffering is believed to be negative because they are not pleasurable. Enter the psychosexual disorder known as masochism. Sexual masochism has long captured the imaginations of psychologists and the curious. Sexual masochism is the [...]

The Electra complex

Albert — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:53:26 +0000

With Harry Potter Mania striking the heart of popular culture, it is important to stress that Harry Potterís tale of a child avenging family murder is a timeless theme in storytelling. Perhaps an even more prominent example of this featured Electra, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. The Greek myth goes that her father [...]

The troubles and origins of our societal scopophilia

Albert — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:31:04 +0000

Though the term ‘Scopophilia’ may carry dubious connotations (even if we do not know what it means), this day and age has created a civilization of scopophiliacs. Scopophilia literally means “a love of watching.” The term entered our lexicon through a translation of the Freudian psychoanalytic word Schaulust. That word does not necessarily signify a [...]

Sufferers of Satyriasis

Albert — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:23:55 +0000

Classical Greek mythology is abundant with colorful imagery, but perhaps no character is more absurd than the satyr. The best way to describe the physical appearance of satyrs is as being half man, half goat. More conspicuous than being half goat however is that vase-paintings from the period are consistent in illustrating the satyrsí perpetual [...]

The story and understanding of nymphomania

Albert — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:23:09 +0000

Before the mid-20th century when medical literature was dominated by the writings of male physicians, it comes as no surprise that excess sexuality in women blew many minds. The questions surrounding oversexed females were many: Did the problem of oversexed women originate in the brain or the genitalia? Could female sexuality be successfully curtailed without [...]

The Oedipus complex in young males

Albert — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:00:53 +0000

The tale of Oedipus, the mythical Greek king of Thebes, and the fulfillment of his tragic fate continues to be a source of wonderment and odd inspiration. The story begins with the King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes frustrated at their inability to conceive. While seeking advice, an Oracle prophesizes that if they bear [...]

Cultural Factors in Psychosexual Disorders

Albert — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:36 +0000

While diversity is a trait to be celebrated in this world, a lack of understanding of different customs and beliefs can lend itself to awkward situations if approached without care. Where one culture may be eager to discuss some subjects openly, others avoid those and view them as taboos. In no other aspect of life [...]