Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, First Edition 1969 First Printing Hardcover. Gently used, excellent condition. Dust jacket shows obvious signs of age. Please review photos carefully. You will receive book in photos. Love the item but not the price, make an offer. #hardcover #1stedition #1stprinting 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arizona

The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. 

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," 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.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für 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.

Portnoy's Complaint

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Philip Roth

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fantasy

Category - Fiction / General Fiction

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Excellent

Listed - 2 years ago

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Ships From - Arizona

Est. Publication Date - Sep 1994

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