Fearful fantasies
Sexuality as a response to love
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14619942 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Backström (Runebergsgatan 50 a 17, 00260 Helsinki, Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-59 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0106-2301 • E-ISSN: 1600-0803 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01062301.2014.920629 |
| OpenAlex | W2010882968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
I argue that human sexuality, and in particular the difficulties associated with it, should be understood as responses, expressive and repressive, to love. Sexual trouble cannot be articulated in terms of a conflictual interplay between “nature” and “culture”, but instead manifests a fear of wholly giving oneself to one’s desire for the other, announced in arousal. I discuss the rôle of fantasies as defensive strategies through which desire is depersonalised, and thus limited and perverted, show how Freud’s attempt to sunder sexual desire from the “object”, the other person, misfires, and problematise certain Lacanian dicta on the alleged “impossibility” of sexuality and desire
Arousal · Human sexuality · Impossibility · Object (grammar) · Psychoanalysis · Sexual arousal · Sexual desire · Sociology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |