This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts. It develops the view that the whole of life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb, equating the process of birth with the phylogenetic transition of a
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This book expands the symbols of the phallus and vagina into cosmic symbols, not by reference to myths but by his interpretations of embryonic, physiological, psychological facts.

Introduction -- Ontogenesis -- Amphimixis of Erotisms in the Ejaculatory Act -- Coitus as an Amphimictic Phenomenon -- Stages in the Development of the Erotic Sense of Reality -- Interpretation of the Individual Phenomena in the Sex Act -- Genital Functioning in the Individual -- Phylogenesis -- The Phylogenetic Parallel -- Evidence for the “Thelassal Regressive Trend” -- Coitus and Fertilization -- Epicrisis -- Coitus and Sleep -- Bioanalytic Conclusions -- Male and Female
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Product details

ISBN
9780367327408
Published
2019-07-29
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
120

Biographical note

Ferenczi, Sandor