Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective.

Psychodynamics, homosexuality, and the question of pathology.

A persistent polarity has existed among theories concerning the origins and the nature of preferred homosexuality. One major group of theories, including most psychoanalytic approaches, stresses early developmental contributions and tends to view homosexuality as psychopathological--a deviation from healthy and fully mature living. The other major group of theories assumes homosexuality not to ...

Homosexuality in ancient and modern Korea.

This paper examines Korean views on the subject of male homosexuality. Using historical and contemporary sources, it seeks to explain elements of new cultural openness towards homosexuality in modern Korea. Korean people's understanding and knowledge of male homosexuality is ambiguous and limited. In the absence of knowledge and open communication, most Korean people imagine that male homosexua...

Etiology and therapy of overt homosexuality.

Etiology and Therapy of Overt Homosexuality Lawrence C. Kolb, M.D. and Adelaide M. Johnson, M.D. Although the origin of latent homosexuality has been discussed frequently in psychoanalytic literature, there has been no definition of those factors that lead to the eruption of overt homosexuality. Many patients have strong latent homosexual impulses, but do not act out these impulses, just as man...

The godfather of psychoanalysis: circumcision, antisemitism, homosexuality, and Freud's "Fighting Jew".

The renewal of humanism in psychoanalytic therapy.

The renewal of humanistic values and practices in contemporary psychoanalytic therapy is exemplified vividly by the impact of Heidegger's existential philosophy on a psychoanalytic perspective called post-Cartesian psychoanalysis. This perspective is a phenomenological-contextualist one in which the focus of psychoanalytic inquiry is shifted from Cartesian isolated minds to ways of being-in-the...