<p>This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book -perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity). This is a study of sexual excitement. It is the fifth book - perhaps more accurately, the fifth chapter in one work - on masculinity and femininity (gender identity), carrying forward ideas examined in my last book, <i>Perversion</i>. As many have noted since Freud said it decades ago, it is so difficult to draw a line between excitement one can call "perverse" and normal excitement that the word 'normal' loses definition. - From the Introduction by the Author</p>The other four books are: 1. Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity 2. The Transsexual Experiment 3. Splitting: A Case of Female Masculinity 4. Perversion: The Erotic form of Hatred

Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life

Medical Books

Robert J. Stoller

Psychology

Pantheon Books

Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Quartet Books

The main contention is that in perversion the main clinical factor is hostility. It combines with sexual desire to produce the various forms that perversion can take on. Stoller shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity. Risk, vengeance and trauma are some of the ideas that the author discusses while building up his argument

Perversion

Taylor & Francis Group

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