Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated) E-Book

Sigmund Freud

• Herausgeber: Sigmund Freud
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex is a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood.

Leseprobe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

THE BOOK

THE AUTHOR

TITLE

COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

THREE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF SEX

I - THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS

1. DEVIATION IN REFERENCE TO THE SEXUAL OBJECT

A. Inversion

B. The Sexually Immature and Animals as Sexual Objects

2. DEVIATION IN REFERENCE TO THE SEXUAL AIM

(a) Anatomical Transgression

(b) Fixation of Precursory Sexual Aims

3. GENERAL STATEMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL PERVERSIONS

4. THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN NEUROTICS

PARTIAL IMPULSES AND EROGENOUS ZONES

EXPLANATION OF THE MANIFEST PREPONDERANCE OF SEXUAL PERVERSIONS IN THE PSYCHONEUROSES

REFERENCE TO THE INFANTILISM OF SEXUALITY

II - THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY

THE SEXUAL LATENCY PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD AND ITS INTERRUPTIONS

THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY

THE SEXUAL AIM OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY

THE MASTURBATIC SEXUAL MANIFESTATIONS46

THE INFANTILE SEXUAL INVESTIGATION

THE SOURCES OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY

III - THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBERTY

THE PRIMACY OF THE GENITAL ZONES AND THE FORE-PLEASURE

THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL EXCITEMENT

THE THEORY OF THE LIBIDO

DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN

THE OBJECT-FINDING

SUMMARY

THE BOOK

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (German: Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie) is a 1905 work by Sigmund Freud which advanced his theory of sexuality, in particular its relation to childhood.

The Sexual Aberrations

Freud began his first essay, on "The Sexual Aberrations", by distinguishing between the sexual object and the sexual aim — noting that deviations from the norm could occur with respect to both. The sexual object is therein defined as a desired object, and the sexual aim as what acts are desired with said object.

Discussing the choice of children and animals as sex objects — pedophilia and bestiality — he notes that most people would prefer to limit these perversions to the insane "on aesthetic grounds" but that they exist in normal people also. He also explores deviations of sexual aims, as in the tendency to linger over preparatory sexual aspects such as looking and touching.

Turning to neurotics, Freud emphasised that "in them tendencies to every kind of perversion can be shown to exist as unconscious forces...neurosis is, as it were, the negative of perversion". Freud also makes the point that people who are behaviorally abnormal are always sexually abnormal in his experience but that many people who are normal behaviorally otherwise are sexually abnormal also.

Freud concluded that "a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of the human sexual instinct and that...this postulated constitution, containing the germs of all the perversions, will only be demonstrable in children“.

The Sexual Aberrations

Freud began his first essay, on "The Sexual Aberrations", by distinguishing between the sexual object and the sexual aim — noting that deviations from the norm could occur with respect to both. The sexual object is therein defined as a desired object, and the sexual aim as what acts are desired with said object.

Discussing the choice of children and animals as sex objects — pedophilia and bestiality — he notes that most people would prefer to limit these perversions to the insane "on aesthetic grounds" but that they exist in normal people also. He also explores deviations of sexual aims, as in the tendency to linger over preparatory sexual aspects such as looking and touching.

Turning to neurotics, Freud emphasised that "in them tendencies to every kind of perversion can be shown to exist as unconscious forces...neurosis is, as it were, the negative of perversion". Freud also makes the point that people who are behaviorally abnormal are always sexually abnormal in his experience but that many people who are normal behaviorally otherwise are sexually abnormal also.

Freud concluded that "a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of the human sexual instinct and that...this postulated constitution, containing the germs of all the perversions, will only be demonstrable in children“.

The Transformations of Puberty

In his third essay, "The Transformations of Puberty" Freud formalised the distinction between the 'fore-pleasures' of infantile sexuality and the 'end-pleasure' of sexual intercourse.

He also demonstrated how the adolescent years consolidate sexual identity under the dominance of the genitals.