Reading Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: From Pleasure to the Object

by Herman Westerink and Philippe Van Haute

Book Overview

Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud's 1905 theory of sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its systematic outline, and its actual relevance.

This reconstruction reveals a non-oedipal theory of sexuality defined in terms of autoerotic, non-objectal, physical-pleasurable activities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367364301
• ISBN13: 9780367364304
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"