Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
Total Points
#239
- Pages
- 274
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act...
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Apr 5th, 2018
I came late to reading Roth, enjoyable but not my favorite
Jul 25th, 2014
Apr 1st, 2013
Mar 28th, 2013
I read this as a teenager and I still remember some of the comical stories and have mentioned them in conversations over the years and no one had heard of the book. Today's' youth should read this book, then they may realize older people had a sense of humor too.
To this day I will not order salad dressing in a restaurant.
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