Bradley Ramos is an analysand at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and independent scholar who received his PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University.

"A fine, very nuanced reading of Freud's vexed work and views on sexuality. Rather than normalizing sexuality or making intrinsically perverse sexuality into some sort of hero, Ramos makes a case for dwelling with sexuality simply as a problem. Erudite and well-researched, this book should have broad appeal across the humanities, including to readers who are just getting interested in psychoanalysis." — Ed Pluth, coauthor of On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage

• AcknowledgmentsCitation Conventions and AbbreviationsPreface: Sexuality without TeleologyIntroduction: The Problem of SexualityPart 1: Sexual Problems: Complicating Trieb and Instinct 1. The Problem with Popular Opinion2. The Problem with the Instinct: Strachey's Revenge3. The "Impossible Difference" between Trieb and InstinctPart 2: Three Essays on Freud's Theory of Infantile Sexuality 4. The Role of the Other in the Genesis of Sexuality5. Auto-Hetero-Erotism: Making Space and Time for the Object in Freud's Infantile Sexuality6. Perversion and Pervertibility of the InstinctConclusion: No ExceptionsNotesBibliographyIndex

Bradley Ramos is an analysand at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and independent scholar who received his PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University.

"A fine, very nuanced reading of Freud's vexed work and views on sexuality. Rather than normalizing sexuality or making intrinsically perverse sexuality into some sort of hero, Ramos makes a case for dwelling with sexuality simply as a problem. Erudite and well-researched, this book should have broad appeal across the humanities, including to readers who are just getting interested in psychoanalysis." — Ed Pluth, coauthor of On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage

• AcknowledgmentsCitation Conventions and AbbreviationsPreface: Sexuality without TeleologyIntroduction: The Problem of SexualityPart 1: Sexual Problems: Complicating Trieb and Instinct 1. The Problem with Popular Opinion2. The Problem with the Instinct: Strachey's Revenge3. The "Impossible Difference" between Trieb and InstinctPart 2: Three Essays on Freud's Theory of Infantile Sexuality 4. The Role of the Other in the Genesis of Sexuality5. Auto-Hetero-Erotism: Making Space and Time for the Object in Freud's Infantile Sexuality6. Perversion and Pervertibility of the InstinctConclusion: No ExceptionsNotesBibliographyIndex

Bradley Ramos is an analysand at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and independent scholar who received his PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University.

"A fine, very nuanced reading of Freud's vexed work and views on sexuality. Rather than normalizing sexuality or making intrinsically perverse sexuality into some sort of hero, Ramos makes a case for dwelling with sexuality simply as a problem. Erudite and well-researched, this book should have broad appeal across the humanities, including to readers who are just getting interested in psychoanalysis." — Ed Pluth, coauthor of On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage

• AcknowledgmentsCitation Conventions and AbbreviationsPreface: Sexuality without TeleologyIntroduction: The Problem of SexualityPart 1: Sexual Problems: Complicating Trieb and Instinct 1. The Problem with Popular Opinion2. The Problem with the Instinct: Strachey's Revenge3. The "Impossible Difference" between Trieb and InstinctPart 2: Three Essays on Freud's Theory of Infantile Sexuality 4. The Role of the Other in the Genesis of Sexuality5. Auto-Hetero-Erotism: Making Space and Time for the Object in Freud's Infantile Sexuality6. Perversion and Pervertibility of the InstinctConclusion: No ExceptionsNotesBibliographyIndex