Self-love

9780140215281

eng [Engels]

2 [Boek]

Baltimore, MD

1972

Gordon

"Adopting an attitude of perfect frankness, Gordon looks at every aspect of masturbation, then hoes on to explain it as an expression of man's basic desire to be one with himself, with others, and with the world."--Back cover

Originally published in 1968 under title: Self-love and a theory of unification.- Contents: Prevalency and frequency -- The physical origins of onanism -- The origins of guilt -- The reinforcement of guilt -- The sequelae of guilt -- Autoerotism and suicide -- Guilt and fantasy -- Narcissism and homosexuality -- The benefits of autoerotism -- Why we masturbate -- Medical and psychoanalytic treatment -- The unification experience -- Unification and death -- Unification, narcotics and crime -- Unification and sexuality -- Unification, suicide and masturbation -- Though and the unification experience -- Thought, unification and masturbation -- Thought, psychoanalysis and the elimination of guilt