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The Sexual Century
by Ethel S. Person, MD, 408 pp, with illus, $40, ISBN 0-300-07604-5,
New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1999.
Henry J. Friedman, MD, Reviewer
Cambridge, Mass
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59(7):667-669.
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In his attempt to bring order to the understanding of how we humans
function psychologically, Sigmund Freud introduced the concept of the dual-drive
nature of human motivation. Libido and aggression were seen by him as residing
below the surface of the personality we could observe in everyday life. Freud's
insight into this fundamental duality brought us closer to comprehending the
inner world of drive, fantasy, and psychopathology, but on the debit side,
it lead to a premature closure of investigation of sexuality and all its complex
manifestations. Instead, it reduced sexuality to an intrapsychic process that
is more or less the result of an unfolding internal developmental sequence.
At the pinnacle of psychoanalytic dominance in the United States during the
1950s and 1960s, one could safely say that homosexuality was viewed as a perversion;
women dissatisfied with their sexual lives or who were anorgasmic during . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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