Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series

While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not only re-opens the door on the broad subject of psychosexuality, but also provides fresh insights into heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, transvestism and transsexualism. This publication brings together some of...

This book explores and revisits the concept of sublimation, in its various aspects and implications that it has in theory and clinical psychoanalysis, and also in its broader socio-cultural aspects. The basic assumption that aroused the author's interest in the topic is a certain surprise in observing how sublimation in psychoanalysis is in general spoken about less in contemporary discourse:...

From time to time we listen to some curious views on psychoanalysis as an old-fashioned and useless discipline, more important from a historical perspective than as a tool for understanding human life in its normal and pathological dimensions, as well as an effective therapeutic instrument. Transvestism, Transsexualism in the Psychoanalytic Dimension shows exactly how psychoanalysis can reflect, discuss, dialogue and...