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Freud's book covered three main areas sexual perversions; childhood sexuality; and puberty. Freud began his first essay, on "The Sexual Aberrations", by distinguishing between the sexual object and the sexual aim — noting that deviations from the norm could occur with respect to both. The sexual object is therein defined as a desired object, and the sexual aim as what acts are desired with said object. Discussing the choice of children and animals as sex objects — pedophilia and bestiality — he notes that most people would prefer to limit these perversions to the insane "on aesthetic grounds" but that they exist in normal people also. He also explores deviations of sexual aims, as in the tendency to linger over preparatory sexual aspects such as looking and touching.His second essay, on "Infantile Sexuality", argues that children have sexual urges, from which adult sexuality only gradually emerges via psychosexual development. Looking at children, Freud identified many forms of infantile sexual emotions, including thumb sucking, autoeroticism, and sibling rivalry. In his third essay, "The Transformations of Puberty" Freud formalised the distinction between the 'fore-pleasures' of infantile sexuality and the 'end-pleasure' of sexual intercourse. He also demonstrated how the adolescent years consolidate sexual identity under the dominance of the genitals. Summary Freud sought to link to his theory of the unconscious put forward in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and his work on hysteria by positing sexuality as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. In its final version, the "Three Essays" also included the concepts of penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus complex.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex [Original Unabridged Edition] Sigmund Freud 9781542820929 Books

It is not uncommon for scientists to dismiss Freud’s psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. This is justified in many respects. His insistence that the joy of an infant suckling its mother’s breasts is sexual satisfaction, rather than merely nutritional satisfaction, reeks of dogmatic sexual obsession. His attempt to explain various personality quirks -- such as “anal retentiveness” -- as a consequence of improper potty training is not merely far-fetched, the same potty experience could supposedly determine directly opposite behavior, and Freud’s conclusions were certainly never verified by longitudinal studies, nor did he have direct access to the potty training his patients experienced.

Freud also takes it for granted that revulsion and shame regarding sex are congenital to civilized races, rather than merely being taught. “Savages” have remained primitive because, supposedly, they have no sense of sexual shame or modesty. Sexual perversions develop in people because, due to either sexual precocity or early seduction, they experienced sex before these inhibitions kicked in. He states that “the existence of congenital inversion (homosexuality) can certainly be questioned. . . the more examination . . . will probably show that the direction of the libido was determined by a definite experience of early childhood (p. 14).” Freud points out that this was also the opinion of Havelock Ellis. “The sexual impulse is probably entirely independent of its object and is not originated by the stimuli proceeding from the object (the opposite sex, that is) (p. 17).” So whether a man is sexually attracted to women, other men, children, sheep, or shoes is entirely dependent upon the happenstancial experiences of childhood. This seems improbable to the point of ridiculous; on the other hand, since some men are sexually attracted to children, sheep, and shoes, it seems likely that some incident in their earlier life must be responsible for these grotesque preferences. At the very least it seems not merely probable, but even tritely obvious, that experiences we have as children are going to have a great impact upon how, or whether or not, we mature. This is a simple fact to which many supposedly sophisticated people remain astonishingly obtuse.

While it is easy to mock Freud’s ideas when hearing of them second hand, nearly everyone who reads Freud cannot help but be impressed by how clearly and logically he presents his theories. Freud had the influence that he had because he expressed his ideas convincingly. Given the absurd extent to which people of Freud’s time prohibited all discussion, and even seemed to try to deny the existence of, sexual attraction, the fact that Freud focused on the importance of sexual attraction in human life was certainly to his credit. Even when I was growing up nobody ever said the word “sex.” We all learned of sex from dirty jokes and pornography. Pornography in those days was incredibly disgusting. The fact that young people have access to online porn might actually be an improvement. It certainly is no worse. I was personally acquainted with at least two young women who knew nothing whatsoever of sex until they were around twenty, at which point they reacted to the discovery rather hysterically.

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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex [Original Unabridged Edition] Sigmund Freud 9781542820929 Books Reviews

Book in Excellent Condition, and is a good read for Psych students
Freud's thoughts on sexuality namely apply to the make psychology (in fact his outdated ideas of women are quite laughable but were unfortunately t be in use for nearly 60 years after publication), but is worth it to read the thoughts and research from over a century ago. Many of the idea poo testbed here are still accurate and even relevant to science which is truly remarkable considering the time. Now,I would recommend following up with a bit of female anatomy if you're a guy.
great book
it was okay. Not what I expected
Not impressed.
a+
I saw that this had lots of great reviews but when I read the book for myself, I was not that impressed. It was hard for me to understand a lot of the terminology.
It is not uncommon for scientists to dismiss Freud’s psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. This is justified in many respects. His insistence that the joy of an infant suckling its mother’s breasts is sexual satisfaction, rather than merely nutritional satisfaction, reeks of dogmatic sexual obsession. His attempt to explain various personality quirks -- such as “anal retentiveness” -- as a consequence of improper potty training is not merely far-fetched, the same potty experience could supposedly determine directly opposite behavior, and Freud’s conclusions were certainly never verified by longitudinal studies, nor did he have direct access to the potty training his patients experienced.

Freud also takes it for granted that revulsion and shame regarding sex are congenital to civilized races, rather than merely being taught. “Savages” have remained primitive because, supposedly, they have no sense of sexual shame or modesty. Sexual perversions develop in people because, due to either sexual precocity or early seduction, they experienced sex before these inhibitions kicked in. He states that “the existence of congenital inversion (homosexuality) can certainly be questioned. . . the more examination . . . will probably show that the direction of the libido was determined by a definite experience of early childhood (p. 14).” Freud points out that this was also the opinion of Havelock Ellis. “The sexual impulse is probably entirely independent of its object and is not originated by the stimuli proceeding from the object (the opposite sex, that is) (p. 17).” So whether a man is sexually attracted to women, other men, children, sheep, or shoes is entirely dependent upon the happenstancial experiences of childhood. This seems improbable to the point of ridiculous; on the other hand, since some men are sexually attracted to children, sheep, and shoes, it seems likely that some incident in their earlier life must be responsible for these grotesque preferences. At the very least it seems not merely probable, but even tritely obvious, that experiences we have as children are going to have a great impact upon how, or whether or not, we mature. This is a simple fact to which many supposedly sophisticated people remain astonishingly obtuse.

While it is easy to mock Freud’s ideas when hearing of them second hand, nearly everyone who reads Freud cannot help but be impressed by how clearly and logically he presents his theories. Freud had the influence that he had because he expressed his ideas convincingly. Given the absurd extent to which people of Freud’s time prohibited all discussion, and even seemed to try to deny the existence of, sexual attraction, the fact that Freud focused on the importance of sexual attraction in human life was certainly to his credit. Even when I was growing up nobody ever said the word “sex.” We all learned of sex from dirty jokes and pornography. Pornography in those days was incredibly disgusting. The fact that young people have access to online porn might actually be an improvement. It certainly is no worse. I was personally acquainted with at least two young women who knew nothing whatsoever of sex until they were around twenty, at which point they reacted to the discovery rather hysterically.