Psychology & Psychiatry, Human Sexuality
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Synopsis
The main contention is that in perversion the main clinical factor is hostility. It combines with sexual desire to produce the various forms that perversion can take on. Stoller shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity. Risk, vengeance and trauma are some of the ideas that the author discusses while building up his argument
Book Details
Published
May 1, 1986
Publisher
Karnac Books
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780946439201