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Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory. Aisenstein distinguishes between pathological masochism - the active search for pain - and primal erotogenic masochism, which she believes develops in early childhood.
List of contents
Series editor's forwardForewardIntroduction: primal masochism: the navel of psychoanalytic theory1. The enigma of pain
2. The birth of desire
3.
Tiredness: a masochism "in the feminine"
4. When masochism is lacking
5. Thinking: an act of the flesh
6. On the destruction of thought processes
7. Submission and thought
Annex: On primary erotogenic masochism, an imaginary dialogue with Benno Rosenberg
Index
About the author
Marilia Aisenstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is a former president of the Paris Society and of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute and editor and co-founder of the
French Review of Psychosomatics. She has written both chapters and books, mainly on psychosomatics and hypochondria, transference, pain and destructiveness, and over 150 papers in French, Greek and English, which have been translated into Spanish, German and Portuguese. She received the Maurice Bouvet Award in 1992.
Summary
Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory. Aisenstein distinguishes between pathological masochism – the active search for pain – and primal erotogenic masochism, which she believes develops in early childhood.
