Seksualitet i et psykoanalytisk perspektiv. Et forsvar for drift og begjaer
Engelsk titel: Sexuality in a psychoanalytic perspective. A plea for drive and desire
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Författare:
Gullestad, Siri Erika
Email: s.e.gullestad@psykologi.uio.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 60
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 18100119
Sammanfattning
In the last decades, sexuality as a driving force seems to have lost its central theoretical status within psychoanalysis. This article discusses what the weakening of the drive perspective implies, theoretically as well as clinically. Based on Freud’s theory of sexuality I discuss the connection between drive and relation and the paradoxes of human desire. Through the presentation of later psychoanalytic contributions, I underline the importance of «the other» and of early affective communication. Furthermore, the paper highlights the experience of sexuality as a transcendent state of consciousness – the «otherness» of eroticism. The discussion emphasizes that the waning of sexual drive as a central motivational force entails a loss of theoretical complexity. Consequently, the psychoanalyst is less able to grasp archaic layers of patients’ personality and life experience as well as their sexual problems and difficult love relationships. The concept of drive comes forward as a guarantee against relational reductionism.