On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"
New Books in Psychoanalysis
Freud's Perversions Are Not Abnormal
Freud called into question the entire distinction between the normal and the perverse. For Freud, these perversions are not abnormal, they're actually part of the normative experience. Another important figure was Wilhelm Reich who linked Freud's insights to a critique of capitalism. Margaret Mead asked whether youth in Samoa undergo the same kind of strumundrung as young people do in the US.
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