(1967). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 48:609 This is the third, corrected and enlarged, edition of an "existentialist" monograph, heavy with Heideggerian ideology and terminology, based however on the teachings of Binswanger who, once having been a follower of Freud, has retained many of his psycho-analytical concepts and ideas. The author chooses, however, to accept Dalbiez's dispraise of Freud. Freud is quite frequently mentioned, though mainly in order to refute his theories, even if, strangely enough, some lip-service is paid to his merits. In contradistinction to the approach of Freud, who assumed a polymorphous perverse stage to exist in the child's early development, the author believes only in the "pervertibility" of the child and tries the opposite way of understanding the pathological in perversions, by comparing them to the normal heterosexual experience of adult love, illustrating his tenets with eight case histories including one case of fetishism, one of coprophilia, one of scopophilia, one of sadomasochism [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
