ABSTRACT
Profoundly enlarged attention has been paid to the issues of human sexuality since World War Two. Yet discussions of these issues remain almost as theoretically barren as before. We say ‘almost’ because some progress has been made. Among Freudian revisionists, Kohut (1978) and Stoller (1979) have moved us beyond the rigidities of traditional libido theory. These developments have largely remained indifferent to the dramatic changes in the patterns and structures of everyday social life over the past half-century and to the impact these must have upon the developmental process.
