2. Erotics/ Aesthetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. PREFACE viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii
5. Part I Dynamics of Erotic Behavior
6. 1. Perversion and the Desire to Harm 1
7. 2. Erotics/ Aesthetics 44
8. 3. Centerfold 70
9. 4. Functions of Obscenity 88
10. 5. Problems with the Term "Homosexuality" 93
11. 6. Theories of Origins of Male Homosexuality: A Cross-Cultural Look 104
12. 7. Transvestism in Women 135
13. 8. Erotic Vomiting 157
14. Part II Observing the Erotic Imagination
15. 9. Psychoanalytic "Research" on Homosexuality: The Rules of the Game 165
16. 10. One Homosexual Woman 184
17. 11. Judging Insight Therapy 201
18. 12. Psychiatry's Mind-Brain Dialectic, or The Mo11a Lisa Has No Eyebrows 209
19. References 219
20. Index 224