Psychosexuality
Psychosexuality is a term coined by Sigmund Freud , which tries to convey that the instinctual life - in addition to the physical sensations of excitement, erection and eruption - takes place to a large extent in the psychological space. Based on infantile sexuality and its domestication through the Oedipus conflict and triangulation , psychoanalysis postulates psychosexuality as a complex game between nature and culture, between pleasure and reality, between experience and action, between longing and drive removal. Psychosexuality describes the core of the unconscious, the most important maxims of instinctual regulation are defense , resistance and transference .
“In psychoanalysis, the concept of the sexual encompasses much more; it goes above and below the popular sense. The extension is justified genetically; We also count all activities of affectionate feelings, which emerged from the source of the primitive sexual impulses, as part of 'sex life', even if these impulses experience an inhibition of their original goal or have exchanged this goal for another, no longer sexual one. That is why we prefer to speak of psychosexuality, which means that it is important not to overlook or underestimate the emotional factor of sexual life. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ On "wild" psychoanalysis , GW VIII, 120
literature
- Sigmund Freud: Sexualleben , Volume V of the study edition, Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer, 1972ff.
- Wolfgang Mertens : Development of Psychosexuality and Gender Identity , 2 volumes, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1992 and 1994.