Deconstructing Normativity?- Front Cover -- Deconstructing Normativity? -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: excavating a theory of sexuality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Understanding Freud's conflicted view of the object-relatedness of sexuality and its implications for contemporary psychoanalysis: a re-examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality -- Introduction -- Returning to Three Essays -- The dry presentation of sexuality in the Three Essays -- On object-relatedness in sexuality -- Making sense of the contradictions -- The evolutionary solution to some of the contradictions and its limitations -- My solutions -- The persistence of Freud's conflict -- The role of the object in determining the value of sexuality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Freud's discussion with psychiatry on sexuality, drives and objects in Three Essays -- Introduction -- In discussion with psychiatry -- Sexual objects, aims and reaction formations -- Understanding sexuality: hysteria is a model -- Sexuality as autoerotic pleasure -- Puberty, object relations and the reorganization of pleasure -- The disappearance of hysteria and the turn to the object -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The pre-Freudian modernization of sexuality: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll -- Sexuality as an inevitable, natural force -- The classification of perversions and their relation to 'normal' sexuality -- The psychological understanding of sexuality -- The close connection between sexuality and personal identity -- From the procreative norm to the pleasure and relational dimension of sexuality -- The social context of the modernization of sexuality -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: The mystery of the erased sentence in Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality