Here Freud introduces the idea that there are men whose sexual object is a man and not a woman, and vice versa. He describes this as 'inversion' and the people as being 'inverts'.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
By Sigmund Freud
- Table of contents
- Summary
- Biography
- Background
- Psychodynamic Theory and Psychoanalysis
- SYNOPSIS
- I The Sexual Aberrations
- Introduction
- Deviations in Respect of the Sexual Object
- a) Inversion
- b) Sexually Immature Persons And Animals As Sexual Objects
- c) Significance of Other Regions of the Body
- d) Fixations of Preliminary Sexual Aims
- e) The Sexual Instinct in Neurotics
- II Infantile Sexuality
- Introduction
- 1) The Period of Sexual Latency in Childhood and its Interruptions
- 2) The Manifestations Of Infantile Sexuality
- 3) The Sexual Aim of Infantile Sexuality
- 4) Masturbatory Sexual Manifestations
- 5) The Sexual Researches of Childhood
- 6) The Phases of Development of the Sexual Organization
- 7) The Sources of Infantile Sexuality
- III The Transformations of Puberty
- Introduction
- 1) The Primacy of the Sexual Zone and Fore-Pleasure
- 2) The Problem of Sexual Excitation
- 3) The Libido Theory
- 4) The Differentiation Between Men and Women
- 5) The Finding of an Object
- Freud's Summary
- Critical Approaches
- Sample Questions
- Further Reading