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"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction." ?Chicago Sun-Times
Vintage
September 1994
Featuring: Portnoy
304 pages ISBN: 0679756450 Trade Size (reprint)
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Contemporary
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A
disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic
impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual
longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel
says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-
eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence
of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor
act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in
overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution,
particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel,
O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für
Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by
Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the
bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship. With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary
edition.
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