Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience

This text examines human sexuality through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and modern ego psychology, which looks at emotional meaning and its organization in symbolic representations of affect as organized by the ego.

Eric R. Marcus is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Supervising and Training Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Introduction 1. Meaning 2. Symbolic Alterations of the Body 3. Fetish 4. Fetish Enactment 5. Attachment 6. Masturbation 7. Threesomes 8. BDSM 9. Treatment