Observing the erotic imagination
- Title
- Observing the erotic imagination / Robert J. Stoller.
- Published by
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1985.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 228 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Stoller is not just a scientist but a lover of words and language. In this book, his text is as playful, charming, and serious as his topic. The mix, a scientific and aesthetic exploration of the erotic imagination, is almost as irresistible as one's own erotic daydreams. Observing the Erotic Imagination is for all professional and private students of the erotic."-- Dr. Ethel Person
- "This book is a delight....He offers a model clinical illustration, brilliant and full of presence. Indeed, Stoller's entire book is a model of clear, elegant conversational prose."--Jerome B. Katz, M.D., Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
- "Stoller presents new thoughts on his most provocative theory of the relationship between erotic excitement and fantasy of revenge and hostility."--Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D. and Evan J. Elkin, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent.
- Subject
- Sexual fantasies
- Paraphilias
- Sexual excitement
- Sex differences (Psychology)
- Fantasy
- Identification (Psychology)
- Fantasy
- Identification, Psychological
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Sexual Behavior
- eroticism
- fantasy (imagination)
- Paraphilias
- Sexual excitement
- Sexual fantasies
- Abweichendes Sexualverhalten
- Erotik
- Homosexualität
- Psychoanalyse
- Sexualpsychologie
- Sexuelle Fantasie
- Sexuelle Reaktion
- Seksuele fantasieën
- Abweichendes Sexualverhalten
- Sexuelle Phantasie
- Sexualpsychologie
- Sexuelle Reaktion
- Psychoanalyse
- Erotik
- Contents
- pt. I.: Dynamics of erotic behavior. Perversion and the desire to harm. Erotics/aesthetics. Centerfold. Functions of obscenity. Problems with the term "homosexuality". Theories of origins of male homosexuality: a cross-cultural look. Transvestism in women. Erotic vomiting -- pt. II: Observing the erotic imagination. Psychoanalytic "research" on homosexuality: the rules of the game. One homosexual woman. Judging insight therapy. Psychiatry's mind-brain dialectic, or the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [219]-223.