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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

by Sigmund FREUD (1856 - 1939)

I. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS: Deviation in Reference to the Sexual Object

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that "a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of the human sexual instinct and that...this postulated constitution, containing the germs of all the perversions, will only be demonstrable in children“. 2. His second essay on "The 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 childhood. 3. In his third essay, "The Transformations of Puberty", Freud formalized 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 in puberty. Originally published in 1905, Freud added significant insights over the next three editions to increase the length to about double it's original size. This is the third and last edition published in 1920. (Summary by Phil Chenevert and Wikipedia)

Listen next episodes of Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex:
General Statements Applicable to All Perversions , II. THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY; The Sexual Latency Period of Childhood and its Interruptions; Manifestations of the Infantile Sexuality; The Sexual Aim Of The Infantile Sexuality , III. THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBERTY; The Primacy of the Genital Zones and the Fore-Pleasure; The Problem of Sexual Excitement , Partial Impulses and Erogenous Zones: Explanation of the Manifest Preponderance of Sexual Peversions in the Psychoneuroses; Reference to the Infantilasm of Sexuality , Summary , The Masturbatic Sexual Manifestations; The Infantile Sexual Investigation; The Sources of infantile Sexuality , THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS: Deviation in Reference to the Sexual Aim , The Sexual Impulse in Neurotics , The Theory of the Libido; Differentation Between Man and Woman; The Object-Finding