Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame

Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.

Looking at Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame.The Oedipus Complex in the 21st Century.Intimacy with the Gendered Self.Veronica: A Case Example.Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Daughters.Middle Childhood and Adolescence.Attachment Love, Romantic Love, Lustful Love, Lust without Love, Transference Love. Coda.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D.,is Editor-in-Chief ofPsychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of theInstitute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage, A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis(Analytic Press, 2002).