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Recent contributions to the psychoanalytic literature suggest that the classical focus on psychosexuality has been lost. This charge is both wrong and right. After briefly surveying the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking on sexuality and reviewing the concept of libido, this essay retrieves the word Lust from the footnotes to which Freud consigned it and remodels it into a new idea. The proposition is put forth that a postclassical theory of sex compatible with contemporary clinical and theoretical practice can emerge once sexuality is rethought in the ambiguous, potential space between Lust and libido.
The only appropriate word in the German language, Lust, is unfortunately ambiguous and is used to denote the experience of a need and of its gratification.
Sexuality Is Alive And Well And Living In Psychoanalysis. You just have to know where to look for it—conduct a treasure hunt in which the prize is hiding in plain sight. At the same time, the reports of sexuality's death are not exactly wrong either. This apparent contradiction, really a paradox, deserves some unpacking. After reexamining the idea of libido, I will unearth the idea of Lust which