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Placed in a historical context, sexuality was once so prominent in psychoanalytic writing that sexual drive and psychoanalysis were synonymous. The exciting discovery of childhood sexuality filled the literature. Then other discoveries came to the fore until sexuality slipped far in the background. This book evokes the excitement of the original discoveries of childhood sexual experience while linking childhood sensuality and sexuality to adult attachment, romantic, and lustful love. This revised perspective offers the general reader insight into contemporary psychoanalytic thought, and presents clinicians with a perspective for exploring their patients sensuality and sexuality with renewed interest and knowledge.
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ER3475X_C000.indd 1 7/11/2007 7:44:09 AM Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series Vol. 1: Reflections on Self Psychology— Joseph D. Lichtenberg & Samuel Kaplan (eds.) Vol. 2: Psychoanalysis and Infant Research—Joseph D. Lichtenberg Vol. 4: Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology— George E. Atwood & Robert D. Stolorow Vol. 7: The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment, Vol. 2—James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, & Joan A. Lang (eds.) Vol. 8: Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach— Robert D. Stolorow, Bernard Brandchaft, & George E. Atwood Vol. 9: Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition—Elaine V. Siegel Vol. 10: Psychoanalysis and Motivation— Joseph D. Lichtenberg Vol. 11: Cancer Stories: Creativity and Self-Repair—Esther Dreifuss Kattan Vol. 12: Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life— Robert D. Stolorow & George E. Atwood Vol. 13: Self and Motivational Systems: Toward a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique—Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, & James L. Fosshage Vol. 14: Affects as Process: An Inquiry into the Centrality of Affect in Psychological Life—Joseph M. Jones Vol. 15: Understanding Therapeutic Action: Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure— Lawrence E. Lifson (ed.) ER3475X_C000.indd 2 Vol. 16: The Clinical Exchange: Techniques Derived from Self and Motivational Systems—Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, & James L. Fosshage Vol. 17: Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice— Donna M. Orange, George E. Atwood, & Robert D. Stolorow Vol. 18: Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns: A Comparative Study of Self and Relationship— Judith Guss Teicholz Vol. 19: A Spirit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis—Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, & James L. Fosshage Vol. 20: Craft and Spirit: A Guide to Exploratory Psychotherapies— Joseph D. Lichtenberg Vol. 21: Attachment and Sexuality— Diana Diamond, Sidney J. Blatt, & Joseph D. Lichtenberg Vol. 22: Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration— Fredric N. Busch & Larry S. Sandberg Vol. 23: Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections— Robert D. Stolorow Vol. 24: Jealousy and Envy: New Views about Two Powerful Emotions— Léon Wurmser & Heidrun Jarass Vol. 25: Sensuality and Sexuality Across the Divide of Shame—Joseph D. Lichtenberg 7/11/2007 7:44:15 AM ER3475X_C000.indd 3 7/11/2007 7:44:18 AM ER3475X_C000.indd 4 7/11/2007 7:44:47 AM Acknowledgments My idea to reconsider in depth my original presentation of the sensual– sexual motivational system began at the 2006 meeting of the Eastern Division of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) in Boston. I was stimulated by a presentation of Malcolm Slavin and discussions by all the members but particularly Shelley Doctors and my prior coauthors Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage. My already-formed central conception about the role of culture-derived shame separating se