Sexual States of Mind

By (author) Donald Meltzer

Book cover: Sexual States of Mind

Extent: 238 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

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(September 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567454

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A groundbreaking revision of the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and its centrality to mental life, distinguishing between adult and infantile states of mind, and between infantile polymorphous and infantile perverse sexuality.

A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, forty-five years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with the work of Freud himself and including Melanie Klein’s contributions on the early Oedipus Complex and the Depressive Position. But more than that, it is a metapsychological study of sexuality which provides a different perspective from more well-known ones that relate simply to a descriptive or behavioural point of view. In differentiating adult sexuality from infantile sexuality and polymorphism and perversion, taking unconscious phantasy and the notion of the primal scene as the pivotal point, Meltzer proposes a unified theoretical and clinical model which has proved of particular help in the field of the psychopathology of addictions and perversions.

Foreword Meg Harris Williams Introduction PART I: HISTORY SECTION A - THE THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT 1. The psychoanalytical method and its theories 2. Childhood sexuality and the Oedipus complex 3. Developmental phases and organisational series 4. From pain-and-fear to love-and-pain SECTION B - ON FREUD'S THEORY OF SEXUAL PATHOLOGY 5. The clinical phenomenology of narcissism 6. Clinical approach to the perversions PART II: STRUCTURAL REVISION OF SEXUAL THEORY SECTION A - PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT 7. Identification and socialisation in adolescence 8. The emergence from adolescence 9. The introjective basis of polymorphous tendencies in adult sexuality 10. The genesis of the super-ego-ideal SECTION B -CLINICAL SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 11. Adult polymorphous sexuality 12. Infantile polymorphous sexuality 13. Infantile perverse sexuality 14. Terror, persecution and dread 15. The origins of the fetishistic plaything of sexual perversion 16. On the distinction ambisexual: bisexual 17. Work, play and sublimation 18. Structural revision of the theory of perversions and addictions 19. Perversion of the transference PART III: APPLICATIONS OF THEORY 20. Tyranny 21. 'Permanent revolution' of the generations 22. Pedagogic implications of structural psychosexual theory 23. The psychic reality of unborn children 24. The architectonics of pornography References Index,

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction

PART I: HISTORY

SECTION A – THE THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
1. The psychoanalytical method and its theories
2. Childhood sexuality and the Oedipus complex
3. Developmental phases and organisational series
4. From pain-and-fear to love-and-pain

SECTION B – ON FREUD’S THEORY OF SEXUAL PATHOLOGY
5. The clinical phenomenology of narcissism
6. Clinical approach to the perversions

PART II: STRUCTURAL REVISION OF SEXUAL THEORY

SECTION A – PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
7. Identification and socialisation in adolescence
8. The emergence from adolescence
9. The introjective basis of polymorphous tendencies in adult sexuality
10. The genesis of the super-ego-ideal

SECTION B -CLINICAL SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
11. Adult polymorphous sexuality
12. Infantile polymorphous sexuality
13. Infantile perverse sexuality
14. Terror, persecution and dread
15. The origins of the fetishistic plaything of sexual perversion
16. On the distinction ambisexual: bisexual
17. Work, play and sublimation
18. Structural revision of the theory of perversions and addictions
19. Perversion of the transference

PART III: APPLICATIONS OF THEORY

20. Tyranny
21. ‘Permanent revolution’ of the generations
22. Pedagogic implications of structural psychosexual theory
23. The psychic reality of unborn children
24. The architectonics of pornography

References
Index

  • By (author) Donald Meltzer

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