SEX IN HUMAN LOVING

by Eric Berne ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1970

These are five lectures given in 1966 at the University of California by the late Dr. Berne which are expectedly light in tone, serious in intent, sometimes eclectic in their incidental information (say, synesthesia) and all, according to your stance on Dr. Berne, either insubstantial in terms of real analytic contribution or genuinely helpful for the self-help dabbler in the self. We'll incline toward the latter particularly since Dr. Berne is consistently tasteful and amusing, both qualities encouraged by the ""preferred"" vocabulary he has chosen and the off the cuff remarks (cuff is one of his nicer substitute words) of a Dr. Horseley and a colloquial naive, Amaryllis. Much of this is structured on his Transactional analysis applied to various states (love, lechery, camaraderie, intimacy); there are the familiar games; there is a nice appraisal of sex from its longterm to immediate uses in human living and loving; etc., etc. You'll learn that WOW is a preferred word for the ultimately perfect experience and that if things go well you can read WoW from either side, but if they go badly, you'll have to do the same for MoM (maybe Woman's Lib will substitute POP). Anyway his book will give you a more valid Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and collaterally, yourself.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1970

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION