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Following the important and widely recognized monograph on Sexual Frigidity in Women, written with Hitschmann & Bergler [Monograph Series # 60], Dr. Bergler here offers a continuation of the general situation as applied to men. Both of these monographs deal with the subject from the standpoint of psychoanalytic conceptions.
If the female fails to find orgastic satisfaction she may know it, many even do not know this, but the partner is usually ignorant of the fact. If the male, however, is impotent, the fact cannot be concealed, save in the few instances of persistent erection without orgasm.
Few things in life are so disappointing as not to be genitally potent, and it is surprising to learn, as one looks over the field, how frequent is this situation in some one of its many variations. Such are numerous, from the initial inability to have an erection, premature ejaculation, before intromission, rapid ejaculation after intromission, painful ejaculations, etc., etc., the range is much greater than these few variants indicate.
Indeed the whole problem of male genital potency is a complex one and only psychoanalysis has been able to unravel many of its underlying causes. Hence the significance and value of Bergler's new monograph, a work larger than the Hitschmann-Bergler's predecessor dealing with frigidity in women, but written along the same general lines.
In the first place, as Bergler point out, there are definite impotency situations of non-psychological significance, as in multiple sclerosis, tabes, spinal cord tumors, etc. There are other somatically involved situations. These are left to the physico, pharmaco and surgical therapists.
The non-somatically induced impotencies are numerous, “ungeahnte Grosse” as Bergler expresses it. The half and the quarter potent, the premature ejaculators, the moody the averse, the painful, the depressed, then the perverse, the persistent masturbators and a host of others, all are well described in this 150 page monograph.
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