ENGLISH

Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality

By Sandor Ferenczi

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780429934186, 9780946439614, 0429934181
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2497285 bytes)
Pages
120\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2021-10-03 05:03:01

Description

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 animal life from water to land, and linking coitus to the idea of thalassal regression: the longing for the sea-life from which man emerged to primeval times.

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