Robert J. Stoller

Gilbert Herdt

Intimate Communications is the first systematic effort to explore and interpret erotic experience and gender identity in a cross-cultural perspective. This is a diologic work that emphasizes the need for exact descriptions of people's statements, feelings, and fantasies, presenting data from individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology informed by the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis, Gildbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller explore the culture and erotics of the Sambia and the role of subjectivity in ethnographic research.

Erotics and the Study of Culture

Intimate Communications

In this book, the author describes patients with marked abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily transsexuals, transvestites and patients with marked biological abnormalities of their sex - in order to find clues to gender development in more normal people.

The Development of Masculinity and Femininity

Sex and Gender

Presentations of Gender

Bill, Merlin, Happy, and Kay are among the porn-film performers and producers who tell their stories to Dr. Robert J. Stoller in this pschyodynamic ethnography of adult heterosexual pornography. Their engrossing accounts reveal in rich detail not only the inner workings of "the Industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants but also the relation between this most denigrated of occupations and "normal" human erotic behavior and attitudes. Consistently nonjudgmental about the material he presents, Dr. Stoller nevertheless draws provocative conclusions about porn, its practitioners, and its effects on society. Everyone at work on a porn production, he says, uses it as a vehicle for unloading his or her rage against something--mores, institutions, laws, parents, females, or males. According to Dr. Stoller, pornography does not exist only to degrade women, there is no reliable evidence that it increases the frequency of rape, and (with the exception of child porn) it does little harm. Pornography, says Dr. Stoller, seems more the result of our changing society than a cause of change; it reflects, more than influences, our values and mores.

Myths for the Twentieth Century

Porn

Argues that most adult sexual behavior is influenced by childhood experiences, and looks at perversion, fetishes, obscenity, homosexuality, transvestism, and psychoanalytic treatment

Observing the Erotic Imagination

On the Development of Masculinity and Femininity

A Psychoanalyst Explores the World of S & M

Pain & Passion

This text is a case study of a woman, otherwise intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. This account of her diagnosis and treatment is illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during her therapy.

A Case of Female Masculinity

Splitting

A previously unpublished work by the author. 'It was like discovering a previously unknown recording by the Beatles. On a 2007 visit to the author's widow, Sybil, she handed me a manuscript. The author's last book had been placed in a publishing queue by his retiring editor. After Bob's death Sybil was told that the publisher had discontinued psychoanalytic books. It languished on a home shelf in Los Angeles for sixteen years. I was holding the final work by psychoanalysis's most eloquent writer on sex.' - From the Foreword by Dr Richard Green

Erotic Plots

Sweet Dreams

d. erot. Form von Haß

Perversion

Perversiunea, sugerează studiile ultimilor ani, ar fi o parte „naturală“ a ființei omenești. Văzută ca rezultat al unor factori cerebrali sau hormonali și regăsită la diverse alte specii animale, perversiunea poate părea un fenomen exclusiv biologic, rupt cu totul de viața noastră sufletească. În vădit contrast cu această accepțiune, reputatul psihanalist Robert Stoller demonstrează că perversiunea este profund înrădăcinată în experiențele noastre psihice. Pornind de la cazuri terapeutice fascinante, cartea de față arată în ce fel unele frustrări, traume și conflicte din copilărie sunt reconvertite, prin scenarii fantasmatice, în surse nefirești de excitare sexuală. Astfel, vechile experiențe dureroase sunt metamorfozate într-un motiv de triumf, victima se transformă în învingător, iar obiectul dorinței sexuale devine țintă a furiei și a urii inconștiente. Într-un limbaj accesibil și fără judecăți moralizatoare, Stoller oferă specialiștilor atât o grilă de interpretare a vieții sexuale în general, cât și o cheie de descifrare a diverselor deviații sexuale, precum sadomasochismul, travestirea, transsexualismul, exhibiționismul și voyerismul.

Perversiunea. Forma erotică a urii

This book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.

Robert J. Stoller

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