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Freud’s Theory of Sexuality

By Tomas Geyskens
Figures of the Unconscious, No. 6
December 2005
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058674711
119 pages, 6 ¼” x 9 ½”
$62.50 Paper Original


Contents include: Introduction – Psychoanalysis as clinical anthropology, 1. An instinct perverted by beauty – Three Essays as a sexual aesthetics, 2. What is sexual about infantile “sexuality”?, 3. The constitution of sexual phantasy, 4. The destruction of sexual phantasy, 5. Love and need in Instincts and their vicissitudes, 6. The capacity to suffer, 7. Oedipus: Abandonment and exile, 8. The Minoan-Mycenaean civilization, 9. Freud beyond psychoanalysis.

Psychiatry

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