The many faces of Eros
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic exploration of human sexuality
By: Joyce McDougall.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Sex (Psychology); Psychoanalysis.
Description: "Human sexuality is inherently traumatic." Thus begins this fascinating psychoanalytic study. As Joyce McDougall convincingly demonstrates, the psychic conflicts arising from the tensions between the inner world of primitive instinctual drives and the constraining and denying forces of the external world begin in earliest infancy and have ramifications throughout life.

Consequently, psychoanalysis has a specific contribution to make to the study of aberrations in core gender, as well as to the understanding of psychic conflict concerning sexual identity and the quest for love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-251) and index.
"A Norton professional book"