Sexuality, Excess and Representation develops a psychoanalytic understanding of psychic bisexuality and how it can be understood theoretically and in clinical practice. It will be of great interest to all practicing psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Rosine Jozef Perelberg is President of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Corresponding Member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. Prior to embarking on psychoanalysis, she received a PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. Her books include Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide, Female Experience: Four Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women (with Joan Raphael-Leff), Time and Memory, Dreaming and Thinking, The Greening of Psychoanalysis (with Gregorio Kohon) and Psychic Bisexuality: A British- French Dialogue. She is the author of Time, Space and Phantasy and Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex. She works in London in private practice.

Introduction Part I: The understanding of psychosexuality 1: Psychoanalytic understanding of bisexuality Part II: Excess and representation 2 On excess, trauma and helplessness 3 Negative hallucinations, dreams, hallucinations 4 The analysis of women by women 5 The riddle of anxiety Part III: The uncanny and time 6 One Hundred Years of Solitude