{"product_id":"portnoys-complaint-vintage-blue","title":"Portnoys Complaint (Vintage Blue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoys Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1969, and is perhaps Roths bestknown book.Portnoys Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933)] A disorder in which stronglyfelt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, autoeroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patients 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 fur Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) it is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the motherchild relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45901657276614,"sku":"DADAX0099399016","price":32.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/71FMgEFCP-L.jpg?v=1780326931","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/portnoys-complaint-vintage-blue","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}