Freud and the Problem of Sexuality

Bradley Ramos is an analysand at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and independent scholar who received his PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University.

• AcknowledgmentsCitation Conventions and AbbreviationsPreface: Sexuality without TeleologyIntroduction: The Problem of SexualityPart 1: Sexual Problems: Complicating Trieb and Instinct 1. The Problem with Popular Opinion2. The Problem with the Instinct: Strachey's Revenge3. The "Impossible Difference" between Trieb and InstinctPart 2: Three Essays on Freud's Theory of Infantile Sexuality 4. The Role of the Other in the Genesis of Sexuality5. Auto-Hetero-Erotism: Making Space and Time for the Object in Freud's Infantile Sexuality6. Perversion and Pervertibility of the InstinctConclusion: No ExceptionsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A fine, very nuanced reading of Freud's vexed work and views on sexuality. Rather than normalizing sexuality or making intrinsically perverse sexuality into some sort of hero, Ramos makes a case for dwelling with sexuality simply as a problem. Erudite and well-researched, this book should have broad appeal across the humanities, including to readers who are just getting interested in psychoanalysis." — Ed Pluth, coauthor of On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage