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The 20th International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress, Brussels, 18-20 July, 2019: “Satisfaction at Last: Neuropsychoanalysis on Sex, Drive and Enjoyment”
Thursday, 18 July
Plenary symposium
Wherever Narcissus is, Echo had already been: Interdisciplinary perspectives on narcissism and sexuality (Chair: Aikaterini Fotopoulou)
Manos Tsakiris
The erogenous mirror: Interpersonal, multisensory, and mutual maps of sexual arousal
We take a novel interpersonal and multimodal approach to characterize the self-reported intensity and distribution of erogenous zones, mapped both on one’s own body and on an imagined partner’s body in response to being touched but also being looked at. Here we show the presence of a multimodal erogenous mirror between sexual partners, as we observed clear correspondences between individuals' topographic distributions of erogenous zones on their own and their partners' bodies, as well as between those elicited by touch and vision. The erogenous body is therefore organized and represented in an interpersonal and multisensory way. The implications of this organization are discussed in relation to current neuropsychoanalytic models of body-awareness.
Manos Tsakiris is Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research is highly interdisciplinary and uses a wide range of methods to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms that shape the experience of embodiment and self-identity. He is the recipient of the Young Mind and Brain Prize in 2014, the 22nd Experimental Psychology Society Prize in 2015, and the NOMIS Foundation Distinguished Scientist Award in 2016.
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Aikaterini Fotopoulou