Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
The Problem of Sex as Instinct
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Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Interpretation of Dreams (1900), and Studies on Hysteria (Breuer & Freud, 1893–1895) are publications in which he set down his discovery that forbidden sexual longings were somehow transformed into neurotic symptoms. Although Freud’s theorizing in Three Essays emphasized the primacy of instincts, the outcome of this work has been to focus attention on the primacy of human emotional—specifically, affectional-social—bonds as governors of human behavior.
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Lewis, H.B. (1983). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. In: Freud and Modern Psychology. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4532-9_4
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The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis
Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud’s thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work. This is a Freud absent the Oedipal complex, which came to dominate his ideas and subsequent editions of these essays. In its stead is an autoerotic theory of sexual development, a sexuality transcending binary categorization. This is psychoanalysis freed from ideas that have often brought it into conflict with the ethical and political convictions of modern readers, practitioners, and theorists. The non-Oedipal psychoanalysis Freud outlined in 1905 possesses an emancipatory potential for the contemporary world that promises to revitalize Freudian thought. The development of self is no longer rooted in the assumption of a sexual identity; instead the imposition of sexual categories on the infant mind becomes a source of neurosis and itself a problem to overcome. The new edition of Three Essays presents us with the fascinating possibility that Freud suppressed his first and best thoughts on this topic, and that only today can they be recognized and understood at a time when societies have begun the serious work of reconceptualizing sexual identities.
Freud’s Three Essays on Sexuality stands, there can be no doubt, beside his Interpretation of Dreams as his most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge.
One of Freud’s most significant and most original contributions to our understanding of human experience.
Is psychoanalysis outdated? … We should not be too hasty. Perhaps we should instead insist that the time of psychoanalysis has only just arrived.
The questions posed by Freud were ones that his age did not think of asking—or, if they were asked, the age did not want to hear anything about them. In other words, Freud made history rather than being made by it.
Freud’s work was a new foundation, a rupture.
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