Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of ShamePlaced in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge. |
Contents
The Oedipus Complex in the 21st Century | |
Intimacy With the Gendered Self | |
Veronica A Clinical Example of Achieving Intimacy | |
Fathers and Daughters Mothers and Daughters | |
Middle Childhood and Adolescence | |
Attachment Love Romantic Love Lustful Love Lust | |
Coda | |
Index | |
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activity adolescents adult affection analysis analytic arousal attachment love attachment theory baby behavior believe bodily boy’s caregivers child child’s clinical clitoris culture daughter domination dyadic empathic envy erotic imagination excitement fantasy father father’s feelings female feminine fondling Freud friends gender identity genital area girl’s guilt idealized incest taboo infant influence inhibiting insecure interactions intersubjective intimacy Jane Lichtenberg little girl lustful love male masculine masturbation middle childhood mother mother’s motivational system mutual myth oedipal age oedipal period oedipal phase Oedipus complex one’s orgasm parents partner patient patterns penis penis envy Persephone perspective play preoccupation procedural memory prohibition recognize regarded regulation relational relationship response revulsion role romantic love sadomasochistic secure attachment secure base seductive sense sensual pleasure sensual–sexual sensuality and sexuality sexual arousal sexual desire sexual expression shame shared Sonya strategies subversive Tandy theory transgressive trauma triadic triadic relations triggered unconscious Veronica woman women