I have shown,[10] at least to my own satisfaction, that the conception of sexuality is not at all clear to any of the Freudian school, including Freud himself.
A criticism of the conception of sexuality cannot be entered upon here.
Consequently, if the Freudian theories of sexuality are directly applicable to the problem of stuttering, it follows that they must likewise be applicable to all the other disturbances of speech just referred to.
A Critical Review of the Conception of Sexuality Assumed by the Freudian School.
With respect to the general problem of sexuality I may say that I have recently[7] taken up, for separate dissection, the conception of sexuality assumed by Freud and his followers.
If sexuality lies at the bottom of stuttering, it must be at the root of all other psychopathologic acts, of whatever nature, of whatever degree and wherever and whenever found.
As a matter of fact the conception of sexuality assumed by Freud and his followers has undergone many changes and is by no means definite and clean cut in its outlines.
The practical consideration of telling the patient what is good for him, and of keeping sexuality in the background seems to dominate the technique.
He says, "The sexuality of the epileptic is characterized by the prominence of auto- and allo-erotism.
Even hinting (to the children) in a remote way about the various aspects of sexuality described by the Freudian school should not find its place and has no place in treating stammering per se in children.
The writer asserts that the work and problems in sexuality in human beings place upon the animal behaviorist an obligation to lay the necessary foundations for a scientific and thoroughly comprehensive investigation of sexual life.
He said: "The cleanest boy and girl cannot give theoretical attention to the thoughts concerning sexuality without the whole mechanism for reinforcement automatically entering into action.
And it is the duty of everybody who loves mankind to study the various phases of human sexuality and help to spread sane and humane ideas on the subject of Sex and Love.
But if a delicate girl or a woman of moderate sexuality has reasons to suspect that a man is possessed of an abnormally excessive libido, she would do well to think twice before taking the often irretrievable step.
What beside sexuality suggested the thought of the Chevalier Marini?
In its solar husband and lunar wife it embraces that anthropomorphism and sexuality which we think have been and still are the principal factors in the production of legendary and religious impersonations.
In passing from China, we may also note the influence of that sexuality of which we have spoken before.
We have already seen that the moon was the embodiment of the female principle in China, and now we see that the primitive Kelts associated sexuality with astronomy and religion.
The average boy or girl cannot give theoretical attention to the thoughts concerning sexuality without the whole mechanism for reinforcement automatically entering into action.
If we begin with the sexual problem, it lies in its very nature that that which is interesting to-day is to-morrow stale, and new regions of sexuality must be opened.
The discovery of the sexuality of ferns, and the completion of the life-story by Bischoff, Naegeli, and Suminski led up to the great generalisation of Hofmeister.
Before we go on to speak of the sexuality of the Cryptogams however, a few words may be devoted to that of the flowering plants.
Without sexuality this expression of the affectional nature would not be possible.
Sexuality is slowly transformed into sensuality and love into lust.
When lascivious thinking and habits change sexuality into sensuality lust becomes a substitute for love.
In the next place it is objected that inversed sexuality is demoralising to the manhood of a nation, that it degrades the dignity of a man, and that it is incapable of moral elevation.
It ought to be borne in mind that they are by no means invariably complicated with abnormal sexuality, but quite as often with normal sexuality in some extravagant shape, as well as with other kinds of moral aberration.
Experience, confirmed by scientific observation, proves that the temperate indulgence of abnormalsexuality is no more injurious to the individual than a similar indulgence of normal sexuality.
The sense of sin and crime and danger, the humiliation and repression and distress to which the unfortunate pariahs of inverted sexuality are daily and hourly exposed must inevitably deteriorate the nobler elements in their emotion.
However that may be, the physicians, as represented by Krafft-Ebing, absolve all subjects of inverted sexuality from crime.
Were it not so, society would long ago have had its eyes opened to the amount of perverted sexuality it harbours.
But, after all," continues the objector, "you cannot show that inverted sexuality is capable of any moral elevation.
Sexuality may become evident at the very beginning of schizogony, as, e.
In one or two cases sexuality appears even earlier in the cycle, and has thus been carried still farther back.
He enjoyed it, in fact, any time he was on one of the worlds where open sexuality was the norm--particularly where outsiders were allowed or encouraged to participate.
It treats sexuality as a matter too vital and important to be ignored or trifled with, much less perverted or denied.
Then welcome to the rank sexuality and to the athletic fatherhood and motherhood celebrated by Whitman.
Unbounded Sexuality "Freedom of speech Is as good as sex.
Questions referring to sexuality in its many forms of expression increase day by day.
Sexuality was subjected to the experience of accepted rules-the do's and don'ts appropriate to expectations of efficiency, and their resulting values, corresponding to the scale of humankind and the natural condition.
Survival is much less affected by fruitless sexuality than within a limited scale of existence and activity.
Becoming more indirect and transitory, human relations affectsexuality and the ability to cope with what is defined as deviant erotic behavior in respect to tradition.
As some see it, once freed from the constraints implicit in the pragmatic framework relying on literacy, art and sexuality intensified their reciprocal influence.
Basically, sexuality seems to return to immediateness, as it integrates many mediating elements.
It should not surprise that Japan, committed to all the values of literacy and the sexuality attached to them, is reluctant to adopt the pill.
Since the time hominids distinguished themselves, the sexuality of the species started differentiating itself from that of animals.
Sexuality made the transition to the two-sex world with a vengeance.
The idea of sexuality in religion is quite compatible with a ritual and practice of an elaborate character, and a depth of piety which prefers starvation to impurity, or, as the Bible has it, to uncleanness.
That some Buddhists have mingled sexuality with their ideas of religion, may be seen in plate ii.
The question of the sexuality of prostitutes, which has a certain bearing on the question of their tendency to degeneration, has been settled by different writers in different senses.
It is often stated that it is easier for children to preserve their sexual innocence in the country than in the town, and that only in cities is sexuality rampant and conspicuous.
Sexuality had not yet developed sufficiently and was not strong and self-willed enough to operate destructively.
The third class represents the few in whom sexuality presides as a ruling passion.
Sexuality is born in the soul of a large share of the rising generation.
The third class consists of those in whom sexuality is a ruling passion.
Sterility may be due to excessive sexuality in the marriage relation, or it may be due to such ante-nuptial indulgence of the husband as has resulted in a depleted condition of the reproductive organs.
Men and women poorly sexed treat each other with more or less indifference, whereas a hearty sexuality inspires both to a right estimation of the faculties and qualities of each other.
Rebuild your dilapidated sexuality by cultivating a general appreciation of the excellence, especially of the mental and moral qualities of the opposite sex.
In certain families, the early awakening ofsexuality is observed with remarkable frequency.
By all these considerations I have been induced to study the problem of the sexuality of children from the most widely different points of view.
It appears doubtful, however, if the confusion of terms just mentioned explains all the observed differences in the sexuality of those commonly spoken of as "dwarfs.
These examples show that in the cases of animal friendship so often reported in the newspapers, the existence of an element of perverse sexuality is at least possible.
Children in whom sexuality has awakened are especially dangerous to their associates, since they readily seduce others to sexual malpractices.
I shall show later that in individual instances such early prostitution is directly dependent upon the sexuality of the children concerned.
Freud[84] above all, discovers sexuality in the life of the child in cases in which, I am convinced, sexual elements play no part whatever.
The child sees very clearly that every word it utters about such things is repressed as improper, and soon learns that the whole field of sexuality is regarded as something unclean, about which not a word must be uttered.
The difficulty of drawing distinctions is all the greater in view of the fact that in the case of non-sexual feelings sexuality constantly plays a certain part.
Above all, sexuality appears only incidentally to play a part, in so far as it awakens the latent tendency to moon walking.
Or was there perhaps one, in relation to whomsexuality is most strongly forbidden, her own father?
I found that love and sexuality continued to be one of many doorways that seemed to continue to help me in evolution.
Many of his early poems evidence sexuality pure and simple; in the Venetian Epigrams and in the Roman Elegies it is even held up as a positive value.
Luther's vacillating attitude towards sexuality is typical of this indecision.
This ideal was the victory of the spiritual principle over promiscuous sexuality and irresponsible propagation and, quite in the true Hellenic spirit, it was again interpreted materially.
Modern synthetic love produces this relationship in its metaphysical perfection out of itself; it is foreign alike to pure sexuality and to spiritual love.
Even Luther took up that position, and to this day Christianity and sexuality remain unreconciled.
Prudery conceives sexuality as a distinct, restricted complex in consciousness.
There is no need to elaborate my subject further and point out that--the first stage passed--the prime of life brings with it the fusion of sexuality and love.
Spiritual love and sexuality were irreconcilable contradistinctions; the man who thought otherwise was looked upon as a libertine.
If sexualityis infinite as matter, spiritual love eternal as the metaphysical ideal, the synthesis is human and personal.
And just as spiritual love approached more and more the mean of a familiar friendship, so was his sexuality concentrated on a single woman, on Christiane, in this connection, too, seeking a mean.
It is difficult to estimate the relative importance of de Bary's astoundingly accurate work on the sexuality of the Fungi.
But, while the law has had no more influence in repressing abnormal sexuality than, wherever it has tried to do so, it has had in repressing the normal sexual instinct, it has served to foster another offense.
But this has no connection with homosexuality, and scarcely with sexuality at all.
Hirschfeld deals in a full and authoritative manner with the differential diagnosis of inversion and the other groups of transitional sexuality in Die Homosexualität, ch.
After two years my sexuality decreased, but that may have been due to satiety or to advancing years.
It must also be pointed out that the argument for acquired or suggested inversion logically involves the assertion that normal sexuality is also acquired or suggested.
In the earlier days, when sexuality was less conscious, this was a great source of romantic feeling, the glamour of which is rather departing.
I shortly found out that several of my school friends and male cousins had the same desires, and an elder brother of my first introducer into sexuality repeatedly spent the night with me, when we would amuse ourselves in a similar way.
The conversations already referred to are a measure of the excitations of sexuality existing in these college inmates and multiplied in energy by communication.
Is the wide prevalence of normal sexuality due to the fact that so many little boys have had their ears boxed for taking naughty liberties with women?
If there issexuality in this, which I trust there is not, it is latent).
For humans, as based initially on image models, sexuality modelled the man very differently from woman.
As already said, sexuality is associated with image models, and changing the structure of basic models, from image to symbolic, has produced strong perturbations in the approach to sex.
I place in this category the cases where a man, whose sexuality has hitherto been normal, suddenly becomes pathological as the result of some circumstance which produces on him a profound impression.
The sexualityof the rich man degenerates by luxury, comfort, excess and idleness, and by the fact that he is already satiated in his youth.
In this respect the sexualityof hysterical women resembles that of men and differs from that of normal women.
In hysterical men analogous changes occur less easily, on account of the nature of masculine sexuality which distinguishes more clearly between the mind and the appetite; but these changes are observed sometimes.
Human sexuality has been unfortunately perverted and in part grossly altered by civilization, which has even developed it artificially in a pathological sense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexuality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
