A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, thirty 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.
- ISBN10 6613862029
- ISBN13 9786613862020
- Publish Date 20 July 2012 (first published 31 December 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Not Avail
- Format eBook
- Pages 195
- Language English