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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789436503321

Autore

Ferenczi Sándor <1873-1933, >

Titolo

Thalassa : a theory of genitality / / by Sandor Ferenczi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1989

ISBN

0-429-91995-6

0-429-90572-6

0-429-48095-4

1-283-11808-4

9786613118080

1-84940-071-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Disciplina

155.3/4

155.34

Soggetti

Sex

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published in 1938 by the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, New York.

Includes index.

Translation of Versuch einer Genitaltheorie.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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".