THE BOOK
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, here turns his gaze to one of the most debated and enigmatic areas of human experience: female sexuality. With his famous boldness, he "puts on the couch" the desires, conflicts and transformations that accompany the formation of female sexuality.
identity.
Drawing on the basic tools of his theory − the Superego, the Oedipus schema, the relationship with the mother and father, early fixations and shifts in desire − he attempts to map the path from childhood to adulthood: how sexual consciousness is constituted, how the object of love changes, how pleasure, loss and the search for meaning are inscribed in the body and fantasy.
A landmark text that provoked admiration but also strong reactions, remaining a point of reference to this day.
THE CREATOR
A small sample of the descriptions that have been attributed to him, in his time and in the following ones, are "mad", "fraud", "dangerous", "genius", "magician", "god". He has influenced all the arts, culture, sciences (medical, social, political, humanities) and has changed the way we perceive ourselves and the world more than anyone else. The reason, of course, is because of Sigmund Freud, an extremely methodical and stubbornly enigmatic Austrian doctor, who attempted to solve all the riddles of the human psyche.