Portnoy's Complaint - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449202917 ISBN 13: 9780449202913

Verlag: Fawcett Books, 1985

Inhaltsangabe

A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fantasy

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mplaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fawcett Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0449202917
• ISBN 13: 9780449202913
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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