Three essays on the theory of sexuality Author:Sigmund Freud, James Strachey Freud's groundbreaking, troublemaking theory of sexuality-infantile (developmental), adolescent (transformational), and deviant-in the classic Strachey translation, with a new foreword by Nancy Chodorow, who re-animates it from the postmodern perspectives of feminist psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender.
It is in this seminal work that Freud first describes his theories on the development, aberrations, and transformations of the sexual instinct from its earliest beginnings in childhood.