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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

22 chapters, about 22,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION 1,400 words
2. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 600 words
3. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS[1] 200 words
4. 1. DEVIATION IN REFERENCE TO THE SEXUAL OBJECT 2,900 words
5. 2. DEVIATION IN REFERENCE TO THE SEXUAL AIM 1,800 words
6. 3. GENERAL STATEMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL PERVERSIONS 200 words
7. 4. THE SEXUAL IMPULSE IN NEUROTICS 600 words
8. PARTIAL IMPULSES AND EROGENOUS ZONES 1,000 words
9. REFERENCE TO THE INFANTILISM OF SEXUALITY 1,200 words
10. THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 800 words
11. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 900 words
12. THE SEXUAL AIM OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 200 words
13. THE MASTURBATIC SEXUAL MANIFESTATIONS[13] 1,800 words
14. THE INFANTILE SEXUAL INVESTIGATION 200 words
15. THE SOURCES OF THE INFANTILE SEXUALITY 900 words
16. THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBERTY 1,400 words
17. THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL EXCITEMENT 600 words
18. THE THEORY OF THE LIBIDO 500 words
19. DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN 600 words
20. THE OBJECT-FINDING 1,100 words
21. SUMMARY 2,100 words
22. NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY 700 words

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