Thalassa : a theory of genitality / by Sandor Ferenczi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferenczi, Sándor, 1873-1933, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts.It develops the view that the whole of life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb, equating the process of birth with the phylogenetic transition of animal life from water to land, and linking coitus to the idea of "thalassal regression": "the longing for the sea-life from which man emerged to primeval times".

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; Introduction; Ontogenesis; Phylogenesis; Epicrisis; Index

Notes:

Published in 1938 by the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, New York.

Includes index.

Translation of Versuch einer Genitaltheorie.

ISBN:

0-429-91995-6

0-429-90572-6

0-429-48095-4

1-283-11808-4

9786613118080

1-84940-071-7

9780429480959

OCLC:

727649341