Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud''s thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work.

This is a Freud absent the Oedipal complex, which came to dominate his ideas and subsequent editions of these essays. In its stead is an autoerotic theory of sexual development, a sexuality transcending bin...