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Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)] A problem by which highly-believed moral and altruistic impulses are constantly warring with severe erotic longings, frequently of the perverse character. Spielvogel says: 'Functions of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are abundant; as a consequence of the individual's "morality," nevertheless, neither fantasy nor act problems in real sexual gratification, but rather in overriding emotions of shame and the dread of retribution, especially in the form of castration.wi (Spielvogel, E. "The Perplexed Manhood," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol.