Portnoyâs Complaint
ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
Portnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post
âDeliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experienceââThe New York Times Book Review
"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most controversial." -Esquire
"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American Fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times
Portnoyâs complaint (pĂŽrtÂŽ-noizkm-plÄntÂŽ ) n . [after Alexander Portnoy (1933â )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: âActs of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patientâs âmorality,â however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.â (Spielvogel, O. âThe Puzzled Penis,â Internationale Zeitschrift fĂŒr Psychoanalyse, Vol. xxiv, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
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Portnoyâs Complaint
ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
Portnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post
âDeliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experienceââThe New York Times Book Review
"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most controversial." -Esquire
"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American Fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times
Portnoyâs complaint (pĂŽrtÂŽ-noizkm-plÄntÂŽ ) n . [after Alexander Portnoy (1933â )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: âActs of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patientâs âmorality,â however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.â (Spielvogel, O. âThe Puzzled Penis,â Internationale Zeitschrift fĂŒr Psychoanalyse, Vol. xxiv, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
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ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
Portnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post
âDeliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experienceââThe New York Times Book Review
"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most controversial." -Esquire
"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American Fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times
Portnoyâs complaint (pĂŽrtÂŽ-noizkm-plÄntÂŽ ) n . [after Alexander Portnoy (1933â )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: âActs of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patientâs âmorality,â however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.â (Spielvogel, O. âThe Puzzled Penis,â Internationale Zeitschrift fĂŒr Psychoanalyse, Vol. xxiv, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
