Alienation in perversions / by M. Masud R. Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, M. Masud R., author.

Series:

Maresfield library.

Maresfield Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alienation (Social psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perversions and borderline states were, by accident of fate, Masud Khan's chief preoccupation in his clinical work during the last three decades of his life. In an earlier volume, The Privacy of the Self, he presented what he called the natural and private crystallization of his experience with his patients and teachers; notably, in the latter category, Anna Freud, John Rickman and D.W. Winnicott. In this later book he takes his cue from Freud who, as he says, diagnosed the sickness of Western Judaeo-Christian cultures in terms of ""the person alienated from himself"".Masud Khan's basic argume

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Reparation to the self as an idolized internal object; 2. Intimacy, complicity and mutuality in perversions; 3. The role of polymorph-perverse body-experiences and object-relations in ego-integration; 4. The role of infantile sexuality and early object-relations in female homosexuality; 5. Role of the 'collated internal object' in perversion-formations; 6. Fetish as negation of the self: clinical notes on foreskin fetishism in a male homosexual; 7. Cannibalistic tenderness in nongenital sensuality; 8. Ego-orgasm in bisexual love

9. The role of will and power in perversions10. From masochism to psychic pain; 11. Pornography and the politics of rage and subversion; Chronological Bibliography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-91068-1

0-429-47168-8

1-283-11799-1

9786613117991

1-84940-048-2

9780429471681

OCLC:

727649333