Desexualization
An interesting problem in The Ego and the Id
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8973022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominique Scarfone (0000-0002-5709-5077, Université de Montréal, Société psychanalytique de Monttréal (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society), Montréal, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1101-1109 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207578.2023.2277014 |
| PMID | 38127479 |
| OpenAlex | W4390066697 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The sudden appearance of the term "desexualization" in The Ego and the Id is considered as a marker of the subtle, almost unnoticeable changes that occurred in Freud's thinking after 1920. The strict dichotomy between life and death drives posed a series of new problems that force Freud to invoke a "desexualized libido" in order to restore some fluidity in the psychic apparatus. But the mechanism of desexualization was difficult to describe and Freud seems to resort to a circular explanation. In the end, the restored dialectics between Eros and the death drive, thanks to desexualization, force Freud to invoke a split in the ego itself
Death drive · Dialectic · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Libido · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |