Freud and the Problem of Sexuality

<p><b>A fresh provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.</b></p><p>While contemporary studies have paid renewed attention to the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and routinely reference Sigmund Freud they seldom engage directly with his work. <i>Freud and the Problem of Sexuality</i> returns to Freud's writings to argue that there is still something revolutionary and novel to be found there-something that will come to challenge both philosophical and popular understandings of sexuality. In lively accessible prose Bradley Ramos revisits some of the most difficult even troubling aspects of Freud's work and sheds fresh light on foundational concepts such as <i>Trieb</i> (drive or instinct) perversion infantile sexuality and the Oedipus complex. Reading Freud alongside Jean Laplanche Louis Althusser and Jacques Derrida we can begin to see why sexuality becomes for us as it did for Freud <i>a problem</i> in and by its nature. However to take this problem of sexuality seriously Ramos argues we must dare to do what most refuse: renounce our persistent fantasies and assumptions about sexuality.</p>