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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Hardcover – July 1, 2010

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If the transference of the erogenous excitability from the clitoris to the vagina has succeeded, the woman has thus changed her leading zone for the future sexual activity; the man on the other hand retains his from childhood. The main determinants for the woman's preference for the neuroses, especially for hysteria, lie in this change of the leading zone as well as in the repression of puberty. These determinants are therefore most intimately connected with the nature of femininity. -from "The Transformations of Puberty" He was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality and the impact of sexual desire on human behavior, and this 1905 work is considered among his most important contributions to the field. This is the source of such concepts as penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex that we take for granted as fundamental to understanding human psychology. In the three essays here-"The Sexual Aberrations," "Infantile Sexuality," and "The Transformations of Puberty"-Freud sets out a theory of human sexuality that continues to influence us today.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1616402636
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cosimo Classics (July 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781616402631
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616402631
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1590L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
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    Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year.

    His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions.

    Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half-century.

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It is not uncommon for scientists to dismiss Freud’s psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. This is justified in many respects. His insistence that the joy of an infant suckling its mother’s breasts is sexual satisfaction, rather than merely nutritional satisfaction, reeks of dogmatic sexual obsession. His attempt to explain various personality quirks -- such as “anal retentiveness” -- as a consequence of improper potty training is not merely far-fetched, the same potty experience could supposedly determine directly opposite behavior, and Freud’s conclusions were certainly never verified by longitudinal studies, nor did he have direct access to the potty training his patients experienced.

Freud also takes it for granted that revulsion and shame regarding sex are congenital to civilized races, rather than merely being taught. “Savages” have remained primitive because, supposedly, they have no sense of sexual shame or modesty. Sexual perversions develop in people because, due to either sexual precocity or early seduction, they experienced sex before these inhibitions kicked in. He states that “the existence of congenital inversion (homosexuality) can certainly be questioned. . . the more examination . . . will probably show that the direction of the libido was determined by a definite experience of early childhood (p. 14).” Freud points out that this was also the opinion of Havelock Ellis. “The sexual impulse is probably entirely independent of its object and is not originated by the stimuli proceeding from the object (the opposite sex, that is) (p. 17).” So whether a man is sexually attracted to women, other men, children, sheep, or shoes is entirely dependent upon the happenstancial experiences of childhood. This seems improbable to the point of ridiculous; on the other hand, since some men are sexually attracted to children, sheep, and shoes, it seems likely that some incident in their earlier life must be responsible for these grotesque preferences. At the very least it seems not merely probable, but even tritely obvious, that experiences we have as children are going to have a great impact upon how, or whether or not, we mature. This is a simple fact to which many supposedly sophisticated people remain astonishingly obtuse.

While it is easy to mock Freud’s ideas when hearing of them second hand, nearly everyone who reads Freud cannot help but be impressed by how clearly and logically he presents his theories. Freud had the influence that he had because he expressed his ideas convincingly. Given the absurd extent to which people of Freud’s time prohibited all discussion, and even seemed to try to deny the existence of, sexual attraction, the fact that Freud focused on the importance of sexual attraction in human life was certainly to his credit. Even when I was growing up nobody ever said the word “sex.” We all learned of sex from dirty jokes and pornography. Pornography in those days was incredibly disgusting. The fact that young people have access to online porn might actually be an improvement. It certainly is no worse. I was personally acquainted with at least two young women who knew nothing whatsoever of sex until they were around twenty, at which point they reacted to the discovery rather hysterically.
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I saw that this had lots of great reviews but when I read the book for myself, I was not that impressed. It was hard for me to understand a lot of the terminology.
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All the ideas Freud puts forth in this work regarding sexuality are now known to be wrong. Of course, the most damaging idea is that children are sexual.
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Glenn Leary
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting reading
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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud. Published by MobileReference (mobi)

The father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud was one of the most influential and authoritative thinkers of the twentieth century. Very interesting reading. Great book!
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