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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

by Freud Sigmund

Health, Mind & Body » Psychology & Counseling

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This treatise includes major works of a Jewish-Austrian neurologist, the founder the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud. He was the one who created an original system analyzing the human mental life. This work demonstrates inseparability of our consciousness from the underlying standards of mental activity. The analysis of children’s neuroses appears to be of great interest here, since it faces educators with the problems out of the field of vision. The teaching about attractions, as well as principles of mental life regulation; inquiry into specific facts of every day life, connected with memory failures, etc. The volume is declared one of the best manuals on the theory of consulting throughout the world. It is reckoned on professional psychologists, educators, students and post-graduates of psychological specialities.

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...supplies the factors which allow us to bring the perversionsinto relation with the normal sexual life, and which are available alsofor their classification. The perversions are either (_a_) anatomical_transgressions_ of the bodily regions destined for sexual union, or (_b_)a _lingering_ at the intermediary relations to the sexual object whichshould normally be rapidly passed on the way to the definite sexual aim. (_a_) _Anatomical Transgression_*Overestimation of the Sexual Object. *--The psychic estimation in whichthe sexual object as a goal of the sexual impulse shares is only in therarest cases limited to the genitals; generally it embraces the wholebody and tends to include all sensations emanating from the sexualobject. The same overestimation spreads over the psychic sphere andmanifests itself as a logical blinding (diminished judgment) in the faceof the psychic attainments and perfections of the sexual object, as wellas a blind obedience to the judgments issuing from the latter....