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The Chairman introduced the panellists and commented that the theme of the panel was of central importance to psychoanalysis.
The first panellist, Joan Coderch, emphasised two points, which he illustrated with clinical material. First, the sexuality that the analyst should interpret is that which forms part of the mental structure of the patient, that manifests itself in the transference relationship and not that which expresses itself in the daily life of the patient. Second, that it is necessary to distinguish between (a) the sexuality that manifests itself within the framework of the transference, and (b) the sexuality that is at the service of a perverse erotisation of the transference.
He presented two clinical vignettes. In the first case, that of a homosexual man, Coderch discussed two of the patient's dreams to illustrate his point. The first dream expressed the fantasy that the analyst would change him into a person who would have available to him all the fertility, creativity and life, which he imagined existed inside the analyst. This was the image of the mother's inside, with which he hoped to make the feelings of nostalgia, abandonment and sadness that tormented him disappear. The second dream took place just before a weekend break, which was felt as a rejection. Facing this frustration the patient fell back on perverse sexuality with which he hoped to excite the analyst and awaken in him a desire for the patient.
Coderch emphasised that these two distinct aspects of sexuality must be interpreted in different ways. In the first dream, the love, the wish to be loved, have to be interpreted as such. In the second dream, the sexuality should be interpreted as being put in the service of eliminating his dependency on the analyst and the aggressive intent of provoking excitation in the analyst in order to disturb his mental functions. This would make the analyst more accessible and permit the patient to have him at his beck and call, a captive dominat