Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Ocherki po Psikhologii Seksualnosti)

Sigmund Freud was a renowned Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist, the founder of psychoanalysis, and a scholar whose discoveries enriched many areas of modern knowledge. His works, 'The Interpretation of Dreams,' 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis,' 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle,' 'Totem and Taboo,' and 'The Ego and the Id,' are of interest not only to psychology specialists but also to a wide range of readers. This edition includes Freud's 'Essays on the Psychology of Sexuality': 'Toward a Theory of the Sexual Drive,' 'On Narcissism,' and 'On the Indignity of Love Life,' as well as the supplementary essays 'The Taboo of Virginity' and 'The Infantile Genital Organization.' In these essays, whose significance for the scientific and intellectual life of our era is difficult to overestimate, Freud develops the psychology of sexuality, formulating revolutionary propositions that soon became classics. The essays reflect Freud's ideas about the nature of sexual deviations and perversions, the phenomena of bisexuality, fetishism, narcissism, childhood sexuality and the cultural and social taboo of virginity.