Failure of the sexual revolution

Author: (English) George Frankl
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In this book, George Frankl explores the purpose of the sexual revolution and the factors that led to its failure. The author goes beyond the superficiality of hedonism, offering a multi-faceted perspective on the sexual revolution, with his views clearly rooted in the tradition of European radicalism. The book elaborates on the connection between social oppression and sexual repression, explains how class society becomes the root of repressive psychological structures, and why any attempt at partial reform is doomed to fail. The author also discusses how the sexual revolution itself was distorted and exploited by a marketized society, as well as the challenges faced by women's liberation, and raises questions about certain aspects of the women's liberation movement. This book provides a critical analysis of one of the most important movements of our time—the sexual revolution—and points toward a new direction for achieving true sexual freedom. The Failure of the Sexual Revolution is regarded as a classic in the field of psychology and has received high praise in both the UK and the US. Frankl's psychoanalytic theory is one of the new developments in the psychoanalytic movement. This introduction presents several of his works: Archaeology of the Soul, Civilization: Utopia and Tragedy, The Unknown Self, Exploring the Unconscious, Blueprint for a Healthy Society, The Foundations of Morality, and The Failure of the Sexual Revolution, among others, which constitute almost his entire body of work on psychoanalysis. In these works, Frankl draws extensively from various sources, using his profound wisdom and clear prose to present a grand panorama of human nature, human society, and the relationship between them. This book is one of them—The Failure of the Sexual Revolution.