Sexual Deviation General: 'General Theory Writing S. D.'

Mixed group of papers on sexual deviation. Including manuscript notes, notes or extracts from books and articles, off-prints, press-cuttings and journal articles.

Topics notably include the concept of normality, sexual identity, gender dysphoria syndromes (transsexualism), loss of a parent effect on sexual identity, self esteem and alienation in male homosexuals, masochistic exhibitionism, transvestism, ego mechanisms in sexual deviation, Stoller on Perversion extracts, fetishism, psychotherapeutic treatment of sexual deviation, narcissism and homosexuality, sexual offenders, treatment of male homosexuality by psychoanalysis.

This is probably background for the chapter by Rosen in the second edition, 'The general psychoanalytical theory of perversion: a critical and clinical study'.

1970s

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