What Does It Mean to ''Make'' Love? - A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy

What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1
On the metamorphic principle of bodies
Chapter 2
From autoerotism to autoerotism for two, on the way to… erotism
Chapter 3
Invariants and variables of human sexuality
Chapter 4
The dangers of ‘becoming feminine’
Chapter 5
Fundamental fantasies, organisers of sexual desire
Chapter 6
Where does the power of desire come from?
Chapter 7
From perversion to neurotic perversity
Chapter 8
Orgasm, perhaps
Chapter 9
What the study of the orgasm brings to psychoanalytic theory
Chapter 10
What never ends
Chapter 11
In search of the Sovereign Good

About the author

Gérard Pommier (1941–2023) was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was Professor of Psychopathology at the University of Strasbourg, director of the journal La clinique lacanienne and co-founder of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis.

Summary

What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Pommier, Gérard Pommier
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032856582
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285658-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
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