A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytic Society, Dr. William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on female sexuality, regression in old people facing death, and on instinct theory.
In this first ever collection of Gillespie's papers, editor Michael Sinason has written an introduction that looks back on the productive 90 years of Gillespie's life. Sinason writes movingly of his early life in China and Scotland and shows his development as a psychoanalytic thinker, organizer and administrator, husband and father. Charles Socarides, an American psychoanalyst eminent in the field of perversion and its treatment, discusses the innovations introduced by each of the papers in the collection and shows how Gillespie's ideas influenced his own contributions and affected the field as a whole.
William Gillespie is internationally known not only for his scientific contributions, but also for his skills, integrity and tact in managing the International Psycho-Analytical Association adn the British Psycho-Analytical Society, where he was trusted and respected by Melanie Klein and Anna Freud.
Author(s): Michael Sinason
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1995
Language: English
Commentary: 35216
Pages: 221
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
PART ONE Introduction to the papers......Page 12
1 Biographical introduction......Page 14
Some personal remarks......Page 46
‘A Contribution to the Study of Fetishism’ (1940)......Page 48
‘The General Theory of Sexual Perversion’ (1956)......Page 51
‘The Structure and Aetiology of Sexual Perversion’ (1956)......Page 55
‘The Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual Deviation with Special Reference to Fetishism’ (1964)......Page 58
Female sexuality and other contributions......Page 61
PART TWO Papers A: The psychoanalytic theory of sexual development and sexual deviation......Page 66
3 A contribution to the study of fetishism......Page 68
Notes......Page 79
4 Notes on the analysis of sexual perversions......Page 80
Case A......Page 81
Case B......Page 84
Case C......Page 85
Case D......Page 86
Conclusions......Page 88
Note......Page 90
5 The general theory of sexual perversion......Page 92
Notes......Page 102
6 The structure and aetiology of sexual perversion......Page 104
Historical development......Page 112
The theory of fetishism......Page 122
General summary of psycho-analytic theory of perversion......Page 127
8 Contribution to symposium on homosexuality......Page 130
Note......Page 139
9 Concepts of vaginal orgasm......Page 140
Notes......Page 144
10 Woman and her discontents: a reassessment of Freud’s views on female sexuality......Page 146
PART TWO Papers B: The forces of life and death......Page 160
11 Extrasensory elements in dream interpretation......Page 162
Note......Page 171
12 Aggression and instinct theory......Page 172
Note......Page 179
13 Some regressive phenomena in old age......Page 180
Note......Page 188
14 The end of life......Page 190
PART THREE Other writings and references......Page 200
Full chronological list of writings, published and unpublished, by William H.Gillespie......Page 202
References......Page 208
Name index......Page 214
Subject index......Page 218
